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 #176 - Fawn, Nymph and another day digging up the ruins

Today I went back to the studio and kept working on the "ruins" painting. Very slowly, it's coming along. Apparently it's not going to turn into something else, but at least I'm managing to cover the initial sloppy brushstrokes. Had I know it would had taken me this long, I would had been more systematic. Anyway, looking back, it seems to be improving which is nice; the shapes in the pillar on the left getting better and I'm there is a 3D space emerging. I also like lighting surfaces. I've also explored "undoing" my latest brushstrokes by using a rug to remove the dry paint and mixing precise colors by trying to match the underlying color. It's a good exercise one that I'm sure will teach me a few things more. I als want to start putting in lost edges, better reflected light, and perhaps textures. Will see if I ever get that chance to finish it. After all, I have one or two more weeks in that space and in the meantime I plan on working on other more spontaneous pieces too.

Today I also did some more 3D sculpt sketching using my Oculus Quest and Gravity Sketch VR. It's so exciting! It feels like real sketching, except that you don't have to work the perspective in your head, but instead you have to work you arm in 3D space something we are not used to doing very accurately (unless there is something wrong with the VR depth perception). Nice!

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