Thanks for this fascinating thread and for the wonderful images shown.  For me as a Scot, it's impossible to imagine Christmas celebrations in the sunshine!  (Actually, this summer in particular it's almost impossible to remember what sunshine is!).

In spending your time creating art, you're living what was almost always my dream.  Except I could never handle the concept of bringing my visions to life and then letting someone else take them away!  Even if they did pay!  So I worked at other things, never really finding the time (or, in truth, the tranquillity) to get anything much done. But I could never pass an art shop without buying something.  I would tell myself: 'if I buy that fifteen-page pad of acrylic/oil/watercolour paper, I can make a quick painting every night for a fortnight.  Then I'll have done something.  Guess what?  I have enough art material in all mediums to supply a school and I spend my free time on the computer trying to master 3d stuff.

Strangely, I don't feel too driven to make 'works of art' in 3d.  Rather, working in 3d is an inexhaustible visual stimulus whether it results in a clay render or an animation in full colour.  I sometimes wonder whether some income from 3d is possible.  In that regard I ponder over the possibilities of 3d printing.