I have had a few concerned people ask if this collection series has died. It has not, actually. There are two pieces incoming, from the last donation drive, but they are vastly overdue, and I am not sure they will actually show up any time soon.

Here is our problem. When this started, our artist, , was offering black and white art for $3 a commission, which is what fills this gallery. The price slowly rose as his skill increased, and the most recent submissions here were worth $9 each.

He continued to allow the $9 price-tag well beyond when his regular commissions had moved to full color and the price moved closer to $20. Finally he said he could not offer me that grandfathered price anymore - his regular commissions now fetch a base price-tag of $24, and it was not worth his time anymore. He allowed the last two ideas from our donation drive to be done for $9, but was clear both that they would be low on his to-do priority list and that they would be the last he could accept at that price.

So, we've got a couple options here. We can wait out him getting around to doing those, then try for another donation drive more fitting to his current prices (I imagine we'd swap to colored entries as a result, that would be sort of fun!), or we can attempt to find a new artist, and request a refund from him and get their art instead.

Or, I suppose, the people who donated can just ask for their money back and I will refund them once I receive the refund from him. That would make me a bit sad, but I would understand. It has been an awful long time, but we could also move forward from there.

What would you people like to do? (Please note this is a decision-making journal, not actually the time where we say, decide on a new artist. I just want to figure out what direction we should go in right now)