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 #206 - Burp

 


Good day today. I mean not much progress, but the frog is coming along. It's not some masterpiece, but I'm well into the rendering/texturing phase something that I don't ofter have the chance of doing/exploring and this is both soothing and illuminating. At the same time, it's an opportunity to work on some skills such as separation of planes. A perfect opportunity since this is a quite simple painting in that regard. I'm still trying to make the back of the body appear receding into the background, I'm need to tone it down even more o perhaps shift the palette too. Don't know how I can do that with pastels but I'm enjoying the detail-work currently. This is perhaps the takeaway of the day: Perhaps detailing and rendering is not tedious, but can also be relaxing and meditative; perhaps this is also something needed along the expressive/dynamic/spontaneous/intense painting phase. (to be investigated further) 

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