Digital Artist Showcase Banner for the Art challenge

My second post - and I'm doing some GIF animation. I decided to enter the Digital Artist Showcase created by @gmuxx. I had some free time on Sunday and since this challenge sounded interesting - hey! what else can I do but a little (big) gif animation. Haven't done banners since.. forever. And animation is not my strongest suit. :) Resolution as required 800x480 pixels (kind of big in my opinion, but can always be resized).

Here is another still image from the same concept with a little fun text...