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
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day #35 - Watercolor Plein Air

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A beautiful day after a difficult night. I went out after quite some time to clean up my head and mull over the difficulties of the last 10 days. The weather was beautiful and the park that I used to hang out last year was so pretty and open. While I enjoyed the openness of the view, I decided to paint details; a part of the stadium as seen through some tree-opening, some ruins lying in the open grassfields. I enjoyed staying out so much (actually I was afraid of getting back home and getting hooked and obsessing over work for one more day) that I stayed out for two pieces, not just one.

I wasn't very happy while making the first one; at the end I decided to call it a day because I was tired, while still feeling that the trees were too dark/heavy compared to the rest of the composition. Normally I'd have to work and darken the tones in the rest of the scene. I was too tired and lazy. But now that I look at it, it's just fine like that. I like particularly all the shades of green; I produced further green shades olive-oil green ones and am glad for that. I love the geometric forms antagonizing the organic ones and I've always been fascinated by how blue, appears grey.

The second one is even more personal. I like the blue and redish shadows in the stones, and I think this time I took the difficulty I had in rendering grass/flowers last time I was in the park and made it a stylistic choice; I particularly like the flow of the grass.  I also like the composition that feels as if receding in the background though it's merely an illusion since the whole scene is but a few meters in front of me. Anyway, enough for now, time to go to bed.

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