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 #225 - Mildly concerned

Today I resumed the pastel artwork. It's still not over, I'm mostly refining edges from here onwards. It's interesting seeing what a difference "sharp edges" can make to such a piece. I hope this practice will elevate my overall edge control level if nothing else. In the evening, again for the sake of testing the apple pencil (which I now see has been a big mistake, I feel drained - it's been a bit too much these double sessions) I did some ...more doodles.
. I did lot's of stuff, gestures and bodytypes and a few vehicles.
My favourite stuff for the day are some "rough brush" landscapes that I was creating in one continuous (figure of speech) stroke while my left hand was varying the brush size; giving myself a very rich texture with a single brush which is the closest to juggling I can do. I also enjoyed doing a treehouse scene and I did some ornaments on a pole in a scene which reminds me of Spirited Away meets Disney's Fantasia. What positive do I mostly keep from all that? The brush control using both hands and the dynamic cartoony sense that some of the doodles had (eg the puppy). Time for rest

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