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
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day #186 - Stranded by Decree and the Guardian

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Today has been very good in terms of creativity. It's been successful on all accounts - VR Sculpting, watercolors and sketching a narrative scene. I refined further the 3D bust I uploaded yesterday (though it still needs some additional work). I'm very satisfied with my anatomy. Then I moved onto paper and did a very interesting watercolor piece. While it isn't the most successful one (I'm fed up with starting with my hand aligned diagonally on the paper it calls for lousy compositions (I feel like the kids who take all their photos with a tilted camera). Anyway, there are many things to like however; the hinted realism of the diadem, the buildings hidden in the background, the reflected light from the ground. It feels as if today I was able to take my colors on the next level.

After that I felt that I still had the urge to work and a vision  came to me (nothing metaphysical - just an image flashing that I a video clip triggered in me and I felt so inclined to make something out of it). So I sat on my ipad to drew it. It was the image of a man, walking quickly towards the ocean. I drew a few poses and then landed the one I wanted. Eventually this turned into this scene. I wasn't planning on making it into something symbolic, but my subconscious is always running its own agenda and eventually now I can see that this character with the diadem (the second for today) is the fatherly/oppressive figure wearing the colona of the covid19. I know it seems coincidental but my experience has shown me otherwise - Even the title is speaking of the imposed lockdown.

In any case, it's a quite successful artwork, I like lots about it, from the anatomy, the thematic, the destroyed boat, to the shadow-play and the composition that I work hard to give it a cinematic oomph.

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