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 #171 - Archangel Geisha

Still fumbling my way around. Last night I realized that I was already dreading how I would continue the last piece (which in turn was a pause from the other "burdening" piece I was working on). I decided to take it easy, and get rid of the sense that there is something precious about this piece, and work freely on it.

I tempted luck, because as I was working using masking tape, the paper started peeling off leaving me with a ruined painting. At that point I decided to free myself from any expectation and start experimenting on this large piece of wasted euros; I started adding pastels on top of the acrylic, and now something is emerging. I still have plans, to rework it on top with acrylic so I first used fixative spray and we'll see where we go from here.

The highlight of the attempt was the intensity of creativity that sprung up as soon as I was no longer afraid of "ruining the work".

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