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 #156 - Stylish brain-farts

Today's highlight is by far the watercolor painting on my Khadi sketchbook which I'm in deep love with; if only I were hardbound so that I could carry it with me!! Amazing cotton paper! At the most part, I've overlayed 5 to 10 layers of paint and the paper didn't show any level of saturation.  This piece I also love because it's probably one of the most balanced in this style; I've managed to keep all individual brush-strokes from sticking out too much. At the same time, there is a style that's been emerging in this and similar works. I like a lot this sense of something, that you are not sure what it is, but it feels as if it's something real nonetheless. I had seen once an ML generated image where everything reminded of something, but the brain couldn't pinpoint anything exactly; the exact opposite of dreams where the "idea" of something is there, but the details are not. Here, are details, but the "idea" is missing. I've elevated to the level of AI. well done myself.

Anyway, I like this piece on many levels; it demonstrates a level of "personal style", it's complete and balanced, and was really fun making; looking forward to getting into this space more.

In the evening I got back and filled a sheet of doodles. I'm somewhat satisfied, there are faces, postures, body types, and there is a scene at the end where I manage to improve my blockish trees in an interesting wide-screen composition.

Time to rest for now

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