Google offered a really useful feature for free to people back in the early 2000’s and that is a space for blogs.  Other websites offered that facility as well.  If anyone remembers the Netscape search engine that is where I had my first website.  A lot of those early engines got squashed out of the market by Google. One small upside of the Google dominance is that it is still around and surprisingly it still offers blogspot as a place to host blogs .

I began posting there back in at the very end of 2010.  I was starting to get serious about learning how to paint and sketch. It was a tool I used to keep myself accountable about practicing regularly.

I kept posting and still update it. The regularity has definetly fallen off but I still maintain it. Now it serves a very different purpose.  It is a record of the work and practice I have invested in the skills I use today.

Blogs these days are not buzzy or trendy – there old and dusty and of another era when people interacted with each other on the web in a different way and with different aims.    Most of the blogs I followed stopped,  were migrated to other services and sadly some of the people passed away.  There are some which are still maintained and now are a resivoir of something becoming scarce – sites made by real people.