How wonderful to see an artist of Jan Geisen's caliber notice my work on her blog.  She has written a most remarkable article in PolymerCAFÉ on the basic principles of design.  I worked through an exercise from this article and sent her a link to my attempts to follow along.  How thrilling it was for me to read her kind words of encouragement and to have her take a look at my work on flickr!  Thank you so much, Jan!