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 #227 - Worlds

I think today I did a good job balancing crative work and not overexerting myself. This painting started with another underpainting (this time using pan-watercolors). The underpainting was ochre, burnt umber and raw sienna but I'm not sure there is much point in so "rich" underpaintings. In any case, it was very enjoyable trying to see what emerges out of this world; that are these things in the background, what are these rocks at the forefront. Adding color was a half-assed effort but I'm okay with it. When I put the brush down, I was not very satisfied with it, and was planning on overpainting it with a fineliner (something that I love doing but have been reluctant to attempt lately) but when I got back I realized that the piece looked good enough so as not to use it as cannon fodder. Overall I'm satisfied both with the world-explorative aspects of this piece, as well as the sense that there is growth taking place in my rendering technique. The fact that I managed to use blacks without them pushing the piece out of balance and the visual pleasantness of the overall composition, are extra bonuses.

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