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 #218 - Saved by the bell

It's very late, the whole day passed in a hurry trying to get some things done (photographing artworks was part of it and preparing images for print) and only now did I manage to pick up my paintbrush and do a stroke on the paper for the sake of put the checkmark on my "done it today too" list. As I was finalizing the stroke (some sortf o mosquito face) I was thinking how it's okay once in a while to do near-zero effort, and how I should be careful from now on when I realized I had moved on to painting something that looked like a tire. From the there I was intrigued and I built a car, and before I knew it, I had something that was exceeding my initial hopes and would put to rest the judging voice. Something interesting came out of it! I like how I didn't mess up big time anything in particular, though now that I see the front part it is somewhat messed up. I'm not exactly sure what's wrong, perhaps the nose of the car is a bit too low (touching the ground?). I'm too tired and it's too late to obsess over it. In any case it's nice doing some vehicles from time to time, and playing with light and shadows.
Today felt as a day of preparations and getting things ready for painting and not too much about the act of painting itself. But it was also a day of doing active steps towards increasing my inspiration pool which is something I rarely do, so it definitely is worth noting here as one of the day's artistic achievements.
I don't often consider these peripheral things as art-making, but inspirating and motivation is probably more important that the act of painting another day. Or not? Anyway, I hope the following days I have some more time to actually paint and slow down a bit since I feel very stressed. Time for rest.

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