Hey dear pastelartist!
You may have noticed that I have not been active here lately - and I know it also affected the life of the group, for which I am really sorry.
I have several reasons for staying away from Devart, I have some time issues, I also lost my password... so there are things. But the main reason is that I don't feel quite motivated in keeping my personal page, and showing off with my art at the moment.
I can't really tell why this happened - but I think there are periods in every artist's life when change is inevitable, and when it is better to hide a little bit, and narrow the forms of media, or channels in which he/she appears. That is what I am going to do - and also, I will become a teacher from September, so I know I won't have the time to keep up my place in this whole community.
I am so grateful for all the people here - you may have also noticed that I no longer work with pastels, but I was always happy to see all the works here, and it reminded me a little bit to my old self, to my old works, and it always gave me good feelings.
I would like to apologise for leaving this group, but I think it will be better and more active without my founder status.
I would like to give the right to someone who feels the power and the motivation in himself/herself to lead the group - please, if you are interested send me a private message (I think I will also write to the people I think will be appropriate for this position

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Thanks again for everything, and KEEP UP THE WORK 'cause I was and I will always be soooo proud of this group!!!
Hugs,
Lilian (Silmarilian)