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 #204 - Frogger

After working a bit on (unsuccessfully) trying to blend yesterdays piece, I decided that there wasn't anything else I good do for it and wrapped up. I put two coats of fixative, photographed it and signed it. Then I rushed to start my next piece which I managed to work on for merely 35minutes only to be rushing for a zoom call I had scheduled. I am stressed lately, and yet it's crazy since I'm stressing over something that I like doing. I'd call it "creative stress" (and probably it was like that 1-2 weeks ago) but now it's started affecting my ability to concentrate, to sleep and my patience which means I'm way into the overwhelmed territory. 
In any case, for today's piece I worked again on a small sheet of thin and smooth paper (it's going to be a week or two before I get my hands on the new materials I'm waiting for) and decided to experiment with pastels again and this time use them like pencil: little pressure, multiple layers. I decided to paint and alien frog and I think I'm well off into my task. Tomorrow I will continue if all goes well.
What I liked about today? The sketch was nice, and I've started with rendering volume and light which I don't often do it, let alone with analog media. Let's see how this turns out!

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