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 #220 - Treeform

 

Strangely I've discovered a white balance issue with affinity photo that I'm using. In any case, today's piece is a mixed bag. The final tasted is a sense of surprise; It came so close to becoming pretty, but eventually it fell apart. It was a difficult piece. I tried a compressed palette and a strange tree-form from above that was getting thicker as it was approaching to the view. At some point it felt as if it was almost going to work. In any case, what do I like? A lot! Most of the 3D volume of it. The hinted viridian light. The difficulty of the subject. The chance to work both with opaque gouache and gouache washes. I like gouache's versatility a lot! Plus, you're not in a hurry afraid of it drying which is great stress relief! I also liked a the brushwork; using the brush to create thin and thick forms, dry brush for texturing, it felt very awesome! I also enjoyed having to match values which I rarely do. It's nice as a challenge from time to time! Enough for today! Walking around home and seeing the pieces all over the place is very satisfying. Tomorrow is another day.

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