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 #161 - Release

Finally! Four months we've been trying to get to the point that I can use the studio for large scale drawings (or any drawings whatsoever). Things were finally in place, only I was missing from the equation! Today I had a bout of insomnia, so I got up early and decided this was the day (after all we have to empty the studio in the next 30 days). I struggled with some white canvas/paper freight  - I hadn't worked in anything bigger than an A4 page for 11 years and even before that I had never worked in anything bigger. Today both pieces were 1,5m at their long dimension.
I decided to put my fear aside, forget about the results, and start. Such a pleasure! I started with the charcoal sketch (which I personally find complete in itself) and as if this wasn't enough I went on to an acrylic piece! I'm so happy for both of them; while the charcoal-piece fells complete, the acrylic one is a bigger success! And while I was frugal with my paints (plus my brushes didn't allow for much bigger coverage) I enjoyed so much the vertical format and the intensity of color!
At the end of the day, this is one of the greatest successes of my recent history. Not only the fact that I finally did some physical, actual, painting, but also the fact that I enjoy both the process (oh my flat brushes, how I've missed the control) and the massiveness of the result, it feels so real. Now this feels something I'd like to keep doing!

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