Hey everybody. Here is the address for my website. It still needs some work, but please take a look and give any advice you might have. thanks-matt

mattmyerssculpture.com

Thanks to everyone for the comments and advice. I really do appreciate it. Like I said my wife is very supportive but even with that I sometimes get to feeling like like I'm flying blind out here. I came to blacksmithing kind of sideways and kind of late in life. Not that late really, I'm only 38, but I have to admit to being jealous of people like tom joyce or hoss haley who talk about knowing what they wanted to do when they were teenagers. I was a painter for a long time because that was supposed to be what "real" artists do,cadleholdersdid the whole art school thing(there's a money pit I regret) but after transfering to different schools and spending some time in alaska I ended up taking a metalsmithing class here. That was the last year that I really painted. I made mostly jewelry, and some small sculptures for the first couple of years, had some luck selling jewelry. Always had to work another job of course, working in group homes. Taught some foundations classes at Bradley University, started grad school, learned it wasn't for me. somewhere in there I built a small forge so that I could make some hammers and other tools. well, that hot forging is addictive. I went from buying my coal by the 5 gallon bucket to 1500- 2000 lbs at a time w/in a year.