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 #209 - The Marching Sardines in front of Noah's Ark

December, the year has almost ended! Today I wrapped up the Sardines piece (which as you might have notice has involved marginally in aesthetics, but considerably in onomatopoeia). I did the photoshooting, fixative and signing. I have optimized the process and I am particularly enjoying the mild sheen of the surface afterwards. Also removing the masking tape is a pleasure (though I haven't found yet an artistic tape that won't damage the paper).
Later on I spent my day ruminating over storing the pieces which has turned into a real headache. While these late pastel pieces are easy to "document" (ie photograph) and put away (safely) the first ones that were big are ...a logistics nightmare. Nice phrase. I'd throw them away if I had a good photo, but I don't have one either and can't think of a way to photograph these huge warped pieces of paper with natural light and my camera lens.
Anyway what was good about today? Artistically it was a very "uneventful" day - I guess I did no more than 10mins of painting, but let's say that I am glad there are such days reminding me that it's not always about quantity, but some times, looking in the direction of your goal is enough. And in that regard, I spent many hours looking in the direction of art-making.

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