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 #149 - The Valley

Now that the weather has finally cooled down I can go out and paint. Yesterday I got some positive feedback about my plein air studies and I realised that a part of was craving for an opportunity to further improve on that. Suddenly the stakes were high. I decided to go out outdoors, but avoid doing anything plein air related and instead take it easy and enjoy the different scenery for some imaginative painting. I filled three sheets, the first is an interesting imaginary landscape with a castle in the background, the second was a strange helmet and for the third one I tried improving my ability to describe details with only black shadows. I'm fairly satisfied with the perspective and (random) architecture in the first piece, the face/eyes shading in the second and a lot about the third.

Overall, I'm mostly satisfied that I avoided the temptation to try and prove myself, and I'm starting become conscious of the fact of how much I enjoy describing forms via shadow.

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