Okay.  I have been tip-toeing around this idea for years - a blog - so here I go!      

It can be a daunting prospect, starting a blog, revealing the inner workings of  your mind to anyone who cares to read what you say.  Not an easy exercise if you fear being vulnerable  and I must admit that I wavered but thinking it through,  it occurred to me that I have been 'revealing' myself  for 15 years in my paintings because as someone once said, every artist paints themselves, no matter what  subject they paint.    And I paint everything and anything that stirs my emotions.  It's all very much a 'mood of the moment' thing for me; a momentary glint of sun backlighting a head of hair, the primal glint in the eye of a lion, the colors of a moody sky.  All artists will identify with those triggers.  Sometimes, the trigger is so fleeting that it is gone before you can fully grasp it and transform the image into a painting but the emotion of it lingers, like the burn of a passionate kiss, spurring you on to paint.  To keep on trying relentlessly for that one painting, that one masterpiece which will encapsulate every thing you have ever wanted to say...  

But I digress - we were talking about newbie bloggers, which is what I am.  This is primarily an art site but like my paintings, the subject of my blogs will be wide and varied.  Mood of the moment.