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 #7 - Crayons


I haven't used crayons in 15 years. I doubt I had used it even back then. But I had a set of Van Gogh Oil Pastels and today I took them out and painted a bit. It was nice. Nice sensation, very physical. I also used a big sketchbook (that I had years now and wasn't very happy about it) so it was all a much larger experience compared to what I'm used; my A5 sketchbooks and my 9.7" iPad. Though to be fair, on the iPad I like zooming and doing all strokes bigger - so I'd say it's probably like working on A3 or something..,

Back to the crayons. I didn't know how to use them, and I didn't manage to understand the philosophy behind the material. before filling up the page. The only thing I understand is that you need to press hard or do multiple passes to hide the paper texture. I'll like to try smudging/blending but I wouldn't want to get my hands dirty so for now I'll pass. Probably I'll need to watch some youtube videos to get the feel of how to use the material.

Once again, I end up using a red-yellow-blue palette. I wonder if this is truly an indication of an inability to mix colors, or it just happens that I personally have this scheme in my DNA. I don't know.

I'm starting to feel that this blog is turning into a nagging-fest. I wonder, how can I make it useful, show the struggle, without the dramatization?

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