Hi from Canada!

[Laurene]

Hi! When I started drawing I had the benefit of 2 wonderful forums. The first was the old Artpapa forum, and then Mike's forum with J. D. Hillberry. I learned so much from honest and supportive comments and critiques and I look forward to being part of this new forum.

[Mike Sibley]

I'm really pleased to see you here, Laurene. I was gutted when I had to close The Drawing Forum earlier this year - partly due to Russian spam accounts. Almost 240,000 of them that I had to manually delete over four months. But I was determined to start another, and with this DWM forum being in the closed Members Only area, I'm hoping that might at least partially solve that problem.

On the other hand.... 240,000 spammers paying subs.... Sorry - just dreaming

[Laurene]

LOL, well, I always say if you're going to dream you may as well dream big! Thanks for the warm welcome Mike!