day #365 - the end of an era

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I thought I was on top of it; I had finished early and was looking for a movie to watch already 3 hours ago. And I don't know how time went by. A phonecall, some networking studying, some online shopping and here we are, already past the time for an early movie. Regardless, today is a special day. The blog is over! I finished 365 days of daily painting and recording it, whatever that means. A big part of the process I will have to keep doing mainly for myself. Perhaps taking daily photos of my work and saving it on some folder. This has provem useful many times when I trying to date a piece I've been working on. Also making a small diary of today's achievements. It's still useful. But this will be done for my eyes only. I also don't know if I will be continuing my obsessively daily painting. How would life be if I had days off? Now for example that I'm moving out and I have to daily chores that until now were completely taken care of, perhaps I'll allow my

day #10 - Imaginary Landscapes

No complaints today. Last night I went to bed satisfied that I had rendered two imaginary landscape thumbnails without internal friction. Usually such happy precedents, set me up for grave disappointment on the very next attempt when the internal friction comes back twice as strong. Such days I feel completely incompetent; my art looks the part too.

However today it was equally smooth sailing. I painted 6 thumbnail imaginary landscapes (took me around 130mins). These are probably not the best landscapes ever created, and the lighting is a bit cartoony but it's pretty much the best I can do. I suppose if I was using references I could get more realistic, however I haven't come to terms with the fact that one might need to paint a lot of reality to produce imaginary realism without references. There is also a purist tendency in me that doesn't like the idea of photographs, and since I hate still life too, it's the occasional plein air study that is my only chance to study real light. That, and when I'm walking around in a mood of observation.

In any case, I'm happy with the results.

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