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The forum is on a downer just now as we have lost a lot of very interesting peoplewho no longer post here. True ,we are recruiting interesting people but we need eveyone to initiate a topic , not just comment. I tried with my post "watrrcolour methods. but that is about to sink without trace due to lack of comment.Mabe not a good topic , maybe lack of interest but at least i tried as some are doing but we need more input.....Syd
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I hope we - and in particular I - didn't put Mats Winter off: but I felt the direction he was inviting us to go down had to be answered. No point having a forum at all if we can't take each other on in argument, without of course letting it turn into a shouting match.
Artistic egos can be fragile, though. Mine isn't, because of the political trade I was in; but I know others have felt uncomfortable; I just don't know what you can do about that, though.
North Light may of course have hit on the real truth - people are too busy producing art in the good weather to come here and talk about it. I do think we sometimes worry too much about any silence on the forum that last a couple of days or more - we don't have to fill every single available kilobyte with conversation - a bit of a rest can be quite pleasant: I remember answering 5 questions on different topics in one day - I was frazzled at the end of it.... that was probably the point at which I decided to write my oil painting e-book, but I don't really remember if that's what pushed me into it or whether I just wanted to do it anyway.
But it waxes and wanes. The Gallery is very active, so the people are about - which is perhaps the important thing.
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I am not so sure the forum is quiet at the moment - my perception (and it is only a perception) is that there are as many comments being posted as ever. However many are just short one liners and few have anything very significant to say (bit like this one) - perhaps this is the reason why it appears quiet. But maybe I've got it quite wrong...! Or have I ?