Welcome back to Space Art by Christopher Doll! Earlier this summer I switched hosting providers for the first time in almost ten years. This meant moving three sites – this one, Doll House Baked Goods, and Breaking Fitts’s Law. And now, after over two months, they are finally back to operating somewhat normally.

The new hosting provider has been superior but the move wasn’t entirely painless. For all of my sites I’ve had to rebuild the themes from the ground-up. Fortunately the core themes I used functioned just fine so it was merely a matter of remembering the changes I made years ago, and then implement them in a better fashion. This involved far more days of behind-the-scenes coding than I’d anticipated, which was irritating at best. Bit it was worth it, all of my sites now have full-on SSL security, unlike those on my previous server.

New in the store

I’ve added a lot of new paintings to the store, and improved the experience overall from my previous version. Mostly I’ve added recent works, and almost all of the paintings from my Livestream on Twitch. This Fall there will be a bunch of new things just in time for the holiday so stay tuned!

New Galleries

In addition to the store changes, I’ve added two new galleries – As Seen on Twitch.tv, which features all of the paintings from my livestream. There’s more to be added each week so stay tuned!

I’ve also added a separate gallery for all of my Folksbier Brauerie paintings. They feature a number of fun, dreamlike explorations and I felt they deserved their own corner.

Continuing Fixes

While the site has been updated I’ve noted that a lot of older pages have lost their image links. I am fixing these as I find them so if you run into a page that is just blank with some text, please bear with me. Mostly this seems to have occurred on my oldest entries. I will try to fix them as I find them.

Project Updates

While that pandemic has caused a lot of serious problems, and far too many unnecessary deaths, I have been fortunate to have seen my art business grow. To all of my clients and patrons, thank you so much for your support. I do hope to continue making fun paintings for book covers, personal commissions and more. Thank you.

I am thrilled to see that my Livestream is taking off nicely as well. As of this writing I have been streaming for six months. Each week I see more followers and subscribers so I remain optimistic that I will be able to continue painting fun scenes for everyone. It’s been a lot of fun painting live, making up stories about these fantastic science fiction scenes. Thank you to everyone who has dropped by. If you’d like to see my next stream, follow me on Twitch.TV. New streams every Wednesday evening, and I will be adding new days this Fall. There’s an exciting big project, thanks to a new commission, that I will be painting live for everyone to see.