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 #163 - the crossroads

Progressive work. Today I continued working on the last piece. I am enjoying this quite a lot, and other than the process, the very fact that the artwork is bigggggg is an added plus! Other than exploring the medium and the forms that emerge out of the initial randomness I am happy about two things: That I managed to put aside yesterday’s demotivation and keep doing it for myself, and that I creating a physically Large piece of work that I also happen to enjoy doing and it’s aesthetics.

It’s particularly interesting to comment on how I overcame the critique - the first thing I realized is that while valid in some context, it wasn’t valid in my context because I liked my composition so I’m not sure why deviate from it. It’s as if somebody was telling me “no, you’re doing it wrong, you must go eastwards”. And then I’d have to ask: What lies eastwards? Why would I want to go that way?

There can be many answers, employability, baroque is eastwards, or I thought you wanted to go to lidl. The only answer that is not valid (yet is most probably the one you’ll get) is “because that is the right way”. If this isn’t the right way, and I like where I’m going then no need to heed any advice.

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