I am an artist, and I know how desperately an artist needs your software. I mean not only painters, it could be for photographers, digital artists and you just name them. Most of them are freelancers - people who promote themselves. And your product is what they are dreaming about.
I think the main direction is supposed to be e-commerce oriented to help art sales online or sell space for the artists, comfortable and useful personal databases where an artist can track their information about sales, customers, consignment agreements, etc...
You know how hard is to keep track on paper when you are doing Giclee limited editions. You know how not well organized we - artists - usually are.
So, I am voting for three directions :
1. e-commerce
2. personal database
3. more interactive art competition
Alexei
www.artpapa.com