Making A Mark was born in December 2005 but first went public on January 7th 2006
Which makes it 19 years old today.
The actual first post Making a Mark said
This is a new journal which will reflect on how my paintings and drawings are created.
It will also introduce small works of art which will be available for sale from my website from the New Year.
That was the idea at the time - but was soon revised! I subsequently decided it was probably a better idea to learn more about art - and my Making A Mark blog started to transform.
In December 2005, I started learning how to use Blogger (in private!) and so, that first post was followed in December, by a few which became much more typical of what I used to post at the beginning.
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| Drinking tea and drawing people - in the RA Friends Room (Who remembers the big black chesterfield sofas?) drinking tea and drawing people became a perennial theme for sketches - which subsequently transferred to another blog Travels with my Sketchbook in.... |
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Drinking tea and drawing people at the RI Exhibition at the Mall Galleries (2010) on Travels with a Sketchbook in.... This sketch subsequently appeared on page 103 of my book Sketching 365 I can even remember that those blue paintings on the back wall were by Bob Rudd Sadly this blog was knobbled by my growing mobility issues |
However, in terms of birthdays, I always count the day it first went public as it's actual birthday. Making A Mark went public to the world at large after I'd recovered from flu and got through Christmas 2005.
So the actual FIRST PUBLIC POST was Catnapping on January 5th 2006.
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| Catnapping #2 Cosmo sleeping on the lap of JR (he loved his Daddy!) |
I've been pondering about whether I've opted for the right blogger software and whether, if I need to change, I need to do it sooner rather than later. But every time I look at all the alternatives I get a headache. And as the flu bug has only diminished rather than disappeared I think I'll leave that for when I'm feeling a bit more invigorated and generally up for a bit of cyber thingummies. Especially as I've just managed to lose all my refinements of the basic template because I fancied looking at what it looked like in blue! Grrrrrrr!!What I now value very much is I have a complete record of a lot of my life over the last 19 years - where I've been, what I've seen, who I've met and all the art along the way. If I get bored or cannot get out I just start to look through my archives in the side column - year by year and month by month.
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