Saturday 2 March 2013
Testing Email Blogging
One the great features that I used when I moved to Posterous was the ability to write a blog in my email client and then post it. Since email Posterous is soon to be no more I've had to test new ways to do this. Getting word press to work has been a breeze but I didn't realise that this could easily be set up with blogger. Now in hindsight this was really stupid but I have no discovered that I can also do this in blogger so this is the first joint blog via email since Posterous.
As spring appears to be well on the way I also though a nice photograph of a Daffodil would help...so here is it.
[tags Wordpress,Blogger,Blog,Email,Daffodil,Spring]
Simon Marchini
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
Closure of Posterous
As you may well be aware Posterous is closing down in April 2013. I have now moved my blog to Wordpress at:
Simon Marchini
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
Friday 22 February 2013
Conforming to a stereotype - I'm in my dressing gown
There are some days when one just cannot help oneself. Today is one of those days. As I write this it is around midday and I'm still in my dressing gown! Many people think that when you retire, I prefer the term superannuated, you just stop, put your feet up and watch Jeremy Kyle. I have admit that on occasion I've actually done that but that is not my normal routine. However, today is one of those days - although I've not been watching Mr Kyle's poisoned pill.
So why is today different? Not really sure although I was out late, for me at least, last night so perhaps I'm feeling a bit tired. Whatever the reason I'm sitting here writing this in my dressing gown. And you know what I really don't care. One of the things I've learnt since becoming superannuated is that life is a much broader church than the 30 plus years I was working for Queen and country and if, on occasion, you feel like sitting around in your dressing gown then more the merrier! After all for the past month or so I've had a massive out pouring of creativity and so perhaps I need a day just slobbing out. Perhaps but I just don't care. This is how things are today.
BTW the reason I was out late last night is because I went to see Richard Thompson at Birmingham. Now I didn't really know that much about Richard Thompson before last night and it was a real revelation - Thompson is beyond doubt a world class guitar player and the drummer and bass player on stage were pretty good as well. However the most fascinating thing last night was that the audience was mostly superannuated as well but this didn't stop them getting down with Thompson. Clearly grey power rules!
Simon Marchini
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Sketching an idea
I'm back to the melodrama and this idea came into my head - so I had 20 minutes to kill and this was the result. 
Sent from my iPad
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Posterous
Well the one veritable has happened - the Posterous service, which was bought by Twitter last year, is to close so in the not too distant future I'll be changing by blog site again. Over the past few weeks it has been noticeable that the Posterous service has been declining so this come as no great shock. It just means sorting out new way of publishing things and all the hassle that brings. Sent from my iPad
Nick Fury
Whilst watching The Avengers...whatever they are called... I just felt like doing a little drawing on Brushes - this is the result. 
Sent from my iPad
Saturday 16 February 2013
Recording what I'm doing
Over the past few weeks I've been spend an awful lot of time perfecting my digital painting technique and today I thought it would be a good time to try and record just how I do this. This was, inpart, as a result of a request from a friend but it also has a broader purpose. In the past I've worked on something on the computer for a while and become very professant. I then stop doing that activity for a while and I come back to to only to find I've forgotten what to do - hopefully the guidelines that I drew up will mean this doesn't happen when I move on from digital art.
Simon Marchini
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
Thursday 14 February 2013
Having fun with melodrama
Just kicking back and making a quick melodramatic sketch based on the melodrama theme I've been working on for the last week or so. 
Sent from my iPad
Goodbye Huffington Post
I've had enough of Huffington post's obsession with celebrity .... I should have known better but we all learn don't we ... so it's goodbye Huffington Post I will no longer receive the latest nonsense about which unknown 'celebrity' has lost 1000lbs since giving birth or had her boobs enlarged or whatever. I feel better for that. Sent from my iPad
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Hit me harder I'm getting rewind
Well I've taken this portrait of Scarlett Johansson as far as I think I can take it. I'm quite pleased it has turned out the way it has - whether Ms Johansson would be pleased I suspect I'll never know.
Simon Marchini
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
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