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 #84 - Beach time!

I finally went to the beach alone, which allowed me bring my painting stuff. I first did a sketch with my calligraphy pocket brush of the iconic casino building that I had been eyeing quite some time now. I was very satisfied; First of all I feel the likeness is there, and I like the noisy details on the ground level and particularly the umbrellas on the left side: some are white on dark, some dark on white! This light/shadow play is my favourite! After that, I did a quick watercolor sketch of three figures standing on a slope. I liked the process in this one, more than the result; I tried painting only the shadows of the figures. Finally I did a payne's gray watercolor painting (sketch, whatever) of the aquarium building. I like this one quite a lot; I think I've captured the likeness of the buildings and I like the contrast in the forground being more than the background's - another application of atmospheric perspective.

Later on I did my daily (it's apparently become a daily thing - again without explicitly accepting the challenge but merely out of inability to quit) posture/gesture and hand practice. If I want to say something good about it, is that I'm putting the hours into doing silhouettes without skeletons and I'm starting to explore more alternative body-construction methods (other than those by loomis) with different results. Today I did some extra effort with the box method. I'm also still fascinated by the leg and spent a little more time drawing the foot too.

Time for bed.

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