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 #213 - Stitch!

Another day spent testing ways to photograph the artworks. I moved from tripod photoshoots to stitching multiple smaller photos. My computer is too old for that. Opening and saving such files needs around 2-3h in total. Too much effort to archive these pieces, and I still haven't touched the big ones.
Anyway, the weather was great today but I decided to go for a walk, and the do the photoshoots so once again I painted indoors with my gouache paints. It also helps that I don't have any white pastel and papers. Today's piece isn't one that I'm happy with, but the discomfort while doing it was enough to allow me to stop it half-finished. I had a headache (due to the lack of sleep probably) and there was too much comotion in the room. It's interesting to see that I've reached a point that I can casually paint while others are doing other stuff in the room. At least paint such abstract pieces. But even like that, my attention needs to be in my painting, not in translating written text for others. To keep in mind for next time.
The good things about today were that I left the piece in a "half-finished" state and I am okay with that, that I realized that I need some focus to paint (if not my analytical mind, at least my eyes - I can't paint if my eyes have to be focusing elsewhere) and I enjoyed doing some detail work with the thin brush that until now I was online using for signing.

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