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 #3 - Whee...asel


Some days I don't feel like drawing. Such days I need to ease myself in, and the trickery I use to achieve that is try and reproduce a success. This is not a conscious effort, but an unconscious one. At least this time. I had a nice memory, where I parked next to an ice cream van, painting it from inside my car at the very early days of the covid19 pandemic. Though I tried not to go to the same spot, I ended up driving right there. At least I managed to avoid painting the van that I had painted last time, and kept my eyes on the paper drawing something from imagination. I was somewhat happy with the result. Lots of issues, and a horrible angled horizon (maybe I should had drawn a plane or a flock of birds to indicate some free-flight happening) but I liked how I layered the watercolors until I got a darker green for the forest. The composition itself was merely something random. I started drawing shapes and this came up alright. Once again the cheap paper beats in my psychology the more expensive watercolor paper. I ended up doing watercolors, but I was planning; it merely happened.
I also found sitting in the car extremely comfortable; and the wheel, served as a nice easel (wheasel -get it? ha-ha-ha). I suffer from upper-back pain and neck-pain and I 'm rarely physically comfortable when painting but the straight back-support of the driver's seat was perfect! Plus that since I don't have my own space, painting in the car felt particularly liberating.
Later at home, I filled two pages with ink doodles trying to create light and shadow while practicing brush control - I love my pentel brush pen; the convenience of the ink cartridge, but mostly the precision of the tip; you can go from hair-thin lines to really thick ones within the same stroke. And all these years, it's still good! But when at home I need to remember and use normal ink and brushes; ink is so much cheaper.

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