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 #178 - Saint Baccus continued

Today I resumed working on yesterday's piece.  I think I'm liking this 70x100cm size; it's very familiar, allows for somewhat dynamic painting and is manageable. Anyway. Didn't sleep last night so today I was up early and decided that I should go to the studio before napping and make use of the better noon light. Evidently today's photos of the artwork have been the best ever (I even took better photos of the Ruins piece). I also had many more hours to work on it (and I only left because I was sleepy and hungry).

What did I like about today's piece? The emergent realism. I liked how the flesh is starting to look like flesh, how the tunic is resembling fabric with its folds and highlights, how the surgical mask at hand looks like a mast and even the controversial under-garment is looking like a transparent plastic ...skirt. Until the very end I was torn between giving him one of those long flowery swimming-suits, a flowery-towel or make him nude, and I'm glad this risky decision of making it into all three has worked! I also enjoyed understanding acrylics a bit more, and painting realistic highlights and reflected lights.

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