A couple of weeks back I announced my new art online presence. I wrote about this return to my roots at the time. I'm a mixed media artist and really needed a way to showcase my work. My day job (and second love) is in Web Development. So, I built a system to show and sell my work. I wanted to do it with as little fuss as possible. I wanted to use open source software. I used Drupal and some key contributed Modules and a contributed theme. I needed a shopping cart, carousels for images, blogs, and static pages. I wanted to be able to phase in additional features as I have time.

While I was constructing it, it seemed to me that what I was assembling was:

• replicable
• of value to other artists
• visually simple - allowing art to speak for itself (thanks Acquia!)
• Robust in its shopping cart (thanks Ubercart!)

I talked to a few artist friends who looked at the site prior to my launching. They all seemed pretty stoked by what I was doing and thought it might be of use to others. Shortly after launching the site, I made a sale.

So, last night I finished off a little site to market assembly of similar sites for artists at minimal cost but with maximum flexibility. From the little marketing site, I'm offering:

Much like many people, I am a person who lives different roles all at the same time. There are instances where different aspects of my life overtake other aspects.

I am deeply interested in the FostAdopt and Foster Care sphere, having personal connections with that world which led to my founding TraumaAdoption.org - a community site. I have a love of technology, and while I'm not a programmer, I have been managing technology projects for many years ranging from the development of ArtistsRegister.com to Web producing the re-build of Popular Science. I love the development process and helping people see what they imagined become a reality. I have worked in the theatre as a lighting guy - theatre was my minor in University. I have also spent most of my life as an artist.

I've started painting again.

This led me to the realization that I needed a presence for my artwork. Over the last few weeks, I have been building a gallery in my spare time in Drupal. I've become extremely comfortable with Drupal - starting that journey with WESTAF in 2006 and continuing it with my employer, pingVision in Boulder.