Ok, sorry for the obnoxious captial letters in the title - just wanted to make sure you all saw this in case you want to know. So, after 5 years, I think it's time to finally change accounts. The short version is that 'Obsessive-badger' is just not me any more. The long version, for anyone who wants to read it is;

I've had this account for 5 years now and of course it's seen ups and downs etc and damn I've changed a lot since then (for one, this user name was inspired by the 'badger badger badger' song!) There's a lot of journals I don't want to delete (partially because I'm lazy! and partially because I don't want to erase the last 5 years). ! I've had a huge break from art, as my degree has absolutely taken over my life and I feel like I've neglected this place a lot. But in my time away, I guess I've grown as a person, and definitely changed, I know that much. I've come back with a totally different perspective on art and as dramatic as this sounds, on life in general.

For the majority of the time I've had this account, I've been in a 'bad place' so to speak where I honestly believed so many things that weren't true and were holding me back. I had a lot of resentment towards a number of things and I won't bother boring you all by listing them and very little belief in myself.

I think this past 12 months has been a huge wake up call to me and it's shown me what I can do, what I can't do and what I should damn well try to do! So, I won't say, it's a new start because , my life started 19 years ago and it's never stopped going, just maybe slowed in pace sometimes. So i'll say that it's a new chapter.....a new stage and I'll get all I can out of it!

Art wise, my gallery, to me, seems a mess, the art isn't consistent and I have a new perspective on that so, rather than delet old deviations, I'd rather leave them in place and preserve them and have a 'new canvas' so to speak to work on.

I will upload a handful of my better pieces to my gallery in my new account but most of it will just stay where it is, here.

So

After all that waffle, my new account is ~Technicolour-firefly and I hope to see all of you over there!

much love as always
~Sammie