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 #32 - A day at the beach

Here it is, after more than half a year, drawing real people gestures. I found myself today at the beach seeing a couple of friends. I took out my sketchbook and my awfully convenient brush pen, and drew(?) them first and then moved to other people bathing. It was awkward fixing my gaze on other people so these were awfully loose and quick - more of a glimpse and then down to my paper. Lots of stuff to like with these, I could be drawing dozens. I love the flexibility of the brushpen.

I have the recollection of starting feeling guilty and useless for doing such loose sketches instead of making every stroke count; for wasting this opportunity in drawing in a childish casual manner without effort behind, something that (in my mind) doesn't bring improvement. But then I remembered that if I want to practice more, I can do it at some point, but more than practice I miss fun, and this is enjoyable and expressive; practice is neither. So these thoughts dissipated quickly and I resumed my sketches guilt-free. This whole session didn't last any more than 15 minutes, but it's probably among the artworks I'm most proud of! Seems I need to get my priorities right! Time for bed!

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