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 #167 - More ruins

 

Went back to the studio to work on the same piece today. I gradually thickened the paint layers and started adding details. I'm not sure I like how I darkened the rightmost light-shaft, but the good news is that with acrylics you can lighten stuff up; yay for opaque colors! Comparing it to yesterday's work, I'm disappointed that there hasn't been some major shift in the umph of the image, but then again that is because details can't change the overall composition. If I'm to point out the positive aspect of it all, first of all it's no worse(?) than before and seeing how little impact today's changes had, I'm starting to realize that I can't "screw it up to much" (unless I do). Anyway, I'm glad I'm learning acrylics, and working on a large fantasy(?) theme piece, I'm also glad to see my iPad workflow being applicable in the physical space and I'm finally glad that I'm exploring another interesting world.

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