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2020 was insanely busy even without the issue of the stress-induced mayhem that the pandemic and Covid-19 caused. However I'm thrilled about the opportunities and creative experiments that I found myself trying out. I was able to see what worked and what didn't. Try new things. See what I needed to work on and improve. I took the whole year in stride as much as I could. Now that 2021 has arrived, I'm starting things off in a big way. Collabs with other artist/craft friends, working on things for shows, and planning on attempting more competitions. I've already started this year running with one collab and having won Second Place with my piece "Everlasting Flower", which I entered into the juried 'Alternative Views' show which is hosted by the Elk Grove Fine Arts Center (Elk Grove, CA). I certainly need to make sure I can continue this train of positive creativity without stretching myself too thin and burning myself out. So wish me luck! Happy New Year everyone! Where to find

Shop Updates As I had stated previously, I finally have a shop with Redbubble and as promised I have been slowly getting designs made and posted. At the moment, the two available are D&D inspired but as time passes, I will be seeing about other genres and if I can get better scans of paintings then they will be added as well. So thank you to those of you who have been so supportive about this new adventure in my life. Redbubble.com/people/dawnstarwood Behind-the-Scenes Work There is a lot of work and planning going on behind the curtains right now. Besides tending to my little online shop, I have been in talks with some folks about s

That's right! I'm dipping my toes into something new this year. Since my introduction of Welcome to the Dungeon on social media, I had mentioned in my comments about it that I was playing around with the concept of the piece being on a t-shirt. After my initial post, I went ahead and put a call out to a large handful of my fellow artistic friends for their opinions and recommendations of what systems/websites they use to get their work available to customers in between conventions they're apart of. That led to several suggestions and hours of reading policies, looking at how the staff interacts with the artists using their system, and the co