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 #42 - Waiting room

What about today... I had a little less than an hour between two obligations and as I was waiting in my dad's office I decided that I could make use of the time (and perhaps free myself from past-midnight painting). I took out my sketchbook, brushpen and fineliner and started sketching the sculptures in the bookcase: My classics time. Perhaps over these 40 years, I've done that 10 or 20 times. Now that I've studied the gestures(posture),skull, human anatomy and planes of the head, drawing the sculptures has a totally different meaning: It's no longer about measuring analogies  between primaries; it's about measuring the deviations from the standard head! It's a completely different process; Like the taylor, I can note down 5-6 numbers and that way reconstruct a shirt!

Anyway, it was fun. Not that they turned out good, but at least I was enjoying it. Never had I realized that the Venus of Milos was so sexy. I enjoyed giving her a swimming suit and a beach at the back. I had fun imagining arms for the statue and  drawing the low angle of some other statue (perhaps Alexander the great?) and finally did a quick sketch of possibly hippocrates. I liked particularly the dirty scribbles that created a sense of values.

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