Checked out your new website; your artwork looks great . I hope you have some good results from it. If you would perhaps be open to a suggestion or two from a viewer's perspective, you might read on; otherwise, please feel free to skip to the next paragraph! It won't hurt my feelings a bit, since you weren't seeking my two cents worth in the first place . And, of course, also keeping in mind that I am speaking as someone who hasn't yet tackled the CSS coding on her own DA Journal and who hasn't done any coding since the old HTML days long ago . When looking through the landscapes, I found the constant resizing of the screen to fit each picture a bit distressing. Would you consider reorganizing the order of the pictures to keep all of the same size/shape together? Then there would be much less resizing involved. Alternatively, each artwork could be inserted inside a static-sized frame that would pretty much eliminate the resizing altogether. For your models, I would love to see some tight closeups of your wonderful pieces. This would work especially well for the horse's head and perhaps the wizard's head, too. I think your artwork would display better on a very dark grey, or black, background, rather than the light one. It would better focus the viewer's eyes on your work instead of taking in the full screen, since your art either tends to be light or makes use of a lot of white space around the outside, and thus blends somewhat into the light background. And last, it would be nice if your individual links automatically opened new windows, rather than sharing the same window, so that it would be easier to navigate the site and to exit from it.

But back to the boats!! From what I read on the Internet, life on a narrowboat isn't necessarily cheaper or better than living in a regular house, it's just different. I can believe that one could run aground or sink one of them since some of them are up to 70 feet long! Steering something that huge through narrow canals crowded with other boats, and squeezing them into locks that barely accommodate both their length and their width (some 70 footers can't squeeze into some of them), on foggy or rainy days especially, would really scare me. I think though what made me a bit uncomfortable with them isn't the width so much as the lack of large windows in most of them. I tend to suffer from claustrophobia if I can't see out. My husband and I and our Black Lab lived in an 11-foot camper mounted on our pickup as well as in a 32-foot 5th-wheel trailer for quite awhile and we did quite nicely because we had large windows. Most of the narrowboats I saw for sale had little tiny windows or portholes, and the Traditional models often purchased by "liveaboard" people have almost no open space on the outside to sit and watch the world go by. Houseboats in the US like this one [link] go out of their way to make life airy, inside and out. But perhaps they also reflect the more sunnier climate where they are normally used over here where people spend most of their time outdoors. I could envision you very easily sitting on the deck with your easel, painting beautiful waterscapes! Still, that houseboat is larger than our mobile home, so I guess one could consider it "ginormous" . Cost wise, some of the larger and more luxurious narrowboats if bought with US dollars would be about the same price as purchasing one of the cheaper houseboats like the one in the link. Oh, well, I can't buy one anyway, so I guess it doesn't really matter in the long run . Always nice to wish though.

Please forgive me for this overly long comment . . . . Feel free to Hide it so it doesn't take up a lot of space in your picture's comment section.