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 #194 - Tunnel Vision

Today I signed and did another fixative layer on yesterday's work and started a new piece. It's a strange feeling with this piece. While painting I could feel the conflict; on one hand I was liking it, on the other hand I was afraid that it might not turn out too well (while at the same time knowing that for the time being it's going perfectly well). When I wrapped up for the day all was good but as the day went by I started developing some negative aftertaste. I still don't know why and I find it very annoying since this piece is still in its infancy unlike most of my pieces where on the first day have 80% of the final impression down. I have no idea why I'm so displeased. There is also an observation that this reminds me of the pastel piece with the flowers I did a few weeks ago (but without the flowers) or the realization that this is a very simplistic composition (radial, tunnel) and maybe I don't feel excited enough about that? I don't know. Lot's of negativity though, for a piece that doesn't deserve it!

Back to trying and making mention of the positive aspect of it all. I liked wrapping up a piece and starting something new, I also like the exercise of building reflections of the light in the protruding rocks along the tunnel. I also got to try a few new things with pastels.

Later in the evening I resumed sculpting the Lizard Rider and enjoyed pushing this one a bit closer to completion.

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