Times a changing they are.

I remember back in the day when I was on a dial-up modem trying desperately to get a song from online.  I would occupy the line for three hours to get one song, usually a 3 megabyte mp3 of a ska tune or somesuch.  That and you couldn't play it until it was finished so you don't know if it was even a good copy or not.

So it goes.

Nowadays I have a Spotify account.  Just today I've listened to about five albums from several different artists and if I don't like what I am listening to I can just choose something else and it plays immediately.  Younger me would have a conniption fit.  Older me laughs and laughs...

So it goes.

Remember the small stuff kids, it gives perspective.

Radio Silence

Blogs die.  Simple truth, aye?  I've seen many go that I've enjoy reading.  Wherein the author states I will write a post with (x) frequency and then other projects come along, the blog dies and the internet gets another abandoned building.

Others simply stop for a while and then come back in a new form or they are still the same but with an added maturity.  Others don't learn from the past and are abandoned again and again like a smoker that is trying to quit again and again.

I think my blog, this thing here is more like the last bit.  A smoker who cannot quit.

In the time that I last wrote in this blog I've had an artistic revelation of sorts.

Dennis Sheehan, Day's End.

The painting above was painted using a two color pallet.  Two. 

I recently watched a couple of videos of Mr Sheehan doing his thing and in each he used a burnt umber and a dark green.  The tools used were a three inch wide paintbrush like what you get at Home Despot, linquin oil  and paper towels.

I've read about people using a limited pallet before to great effect but it didn't sink in until I watched it happen in front of me.  I want to try it out for myself and if I do I will be sure to document it and put it up here.