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 #131 - Decluttered!

 

Here we are! I finally got my computer for repair and emptied the desk. I set my iPad on a stand, plugged in a mouse and a keyboard and called it my new desktop-substitute! Compare this to the huge imac I had, now the desk is so empty that I can even draw large scale! An unexpected joy!

It’s been a joyous day for sure, I could definitely tell the difference between the hectic past days (or was it weeks) and how today everything felt so much nicer!

When it comes to my drawing/painting practice, I took out my watercolors kit, my red sable brush and did a nice composition of light and shadow. While it started randomly (the skewed gateway at the center probably looks a bit out of place) I decided to to put some effort in insinuating shapes with negative shapes: In other words I tried imagining the shape of the lit wall planes (whites) as they are being interrupted by overlapping shaded areas. While some parts are wrong (after all with watercolors you can’t add more white once you lose it) I am very happy with the result: It was both fun, interesting as a results and at parts even bordering “pretty” (I like particularly the left side). I also like the color palette and the composition.

Overall I like many aspects of what I did, and the fact that I did some real piece after all these days of the bare-minimum efforts! (plus I like that I’m typing on an actual keyboard)

Time for rest!

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