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 #147 - Quantity, not quality

I didn't feel very connected today. At the end of the day, it's been a productive one, such a contrast from how I feel. Is it perhaps that I did too much and didn't know when to stop? I'll have to be more mindful next time. I started with the boat sketch in tinted gray paper; apparently it's not much fun with watercolors; and my pastels are too thick. Perhaps I should get pencils (which I never thought I'd get - I hate the idea of them).  I like the simplicity of it, and the spaceship in the sky.

After that I did a strange watercolor composition, like a city with a giant flower, with payne's grey that I overlaid with colors; if overlaying works with such dark colors, it will definitely work with lighter ones. I like the flower because it's something so out of character for me, and drawing one in a city... what was I thinking? This makes it feel like a huge win; a huge deviation from the self-ascribed roles. finally I did some attempts at faces with a fineliner; I'm out of shape and they all love deformed, but I'm glad I moving towards a more natural understanding of structure and if these are my ugly, out of shape ones, I'm confident there has been a definite improvement since last time I checked.

Finally I did a random silhouette and explored a character with my fineliner - by that time I was exhausted and I'm glad I didn't try to define the background elements. I like the shoes, the left (our right) hand, and the fact that I did some silhouette exploration after a long long time!

Enough, time for rest 

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