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 #120 - in the dead of the night

Another day that I'm trying to take it easy; still not touching the iPad (the synonym of productivity and rigid practice). Instead I'm still doing watercolor exploratory sketches. I did something that came out as a Minotaur using payne's gray, and another one using my least favourite red (judging also by its unused tile on my kit), an interesting creature walking on clouds.

It's so much easier when using one color and layering it for values. With the minotaur I like the background, the floor and somewhat the tones/values. I hate the short thigh and though I'm not supposed to write these things here, I need to get it off my chest. The second piece is much more interesting; the whole head full of branches is very interesting and I was particularly happy with the shading. The limbs are also nice and the tail is something new that hasn't come out of my brush before. I am starting to create a style with my clouds where I mix hard lines with soft washes. The sky was unfortunately tainted by a dirty sheet of plastic that I was using on the undried piece to flatten the paper. It's okay though, could had been worse.

What do I keep from today? The sense that it could had been worse and that I'm trying to take it easy. It's quiet here.

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