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 #195 - A Splash

So this is it for today. Today I got so frustrated that I couldn't paint outdoors; through a series of mishaps I ended up missing the sunlight altogether. The rest of the day I went on feeling bad. Mostly sad. Eventually, I picked up my good old trusty watercolors and did something. A part of me is willing to accept this work, another won't. This will be task for the months (hopefully not years) to come. But in any case, there are some really positive things that I need to point out. Particularly today, a day that I'm struggling.

So here comes the eulogy. I like how I took the thin brush and used black (payne's gray) strokes. It's something I was doing a lot in the past with my winsor and newton inks, but had been avoiding with watercolors. No real reason, but my deep fear of experimentation and my deep fear of being put down by other purists like myself. But here it is. The radical act of using solid, sharp strokes in an otherwise watercolor composition. Sue me!
Another thing I enjoyed in this process is the line weight control from the springy hair of this signature brush that I used and the patterns (dots, dashes, grapes etc) that I revisited. Above all, this artwork is a victory in doing one more creative thing, on a day that was screaming "you'll amount to nothing, what's the point, you are a million years away".

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