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 #235 - Landscape

Today's artwork has been very good. While the end result is not 100% to my liking: While I love both the left and right sides, the transition from the high-constrast left one, to the soft right-one, doesn't make much sense in terms of 3D space. If I hadn't put away my paintbrushes I'd attemp a mini-fix.
Other than that, this is a very interesting piece, that I enjoyed doing. I love the landscape rendering (I love creating imaginary rock formations!), the chromatic abberation in the light; the stark dark/light play and the very strong 3D sense of the space - it's very intrguing. Only worry that I've used lemon yellow and carmine red that are not very stable colors something that I usually avoid, and to be honest, I should had avoided this time too, in retrospection, it wasn't necessary.
In any case, I love the texture (this is the kind of artwork that I see in digital and say "wow amazing brushwork") and it is also a surprise that I havve reached this level in a physical medium! It's motivating, because it's hard seeing progress over the years. I like the intensity of the colors (the reds are rich and luminous) and I like that I picked a palette today and remained with it. Overall, lots of rich colors! Finally, I like how the background machine(?) came to be: At first it was a mountain that I was too afraid to touch up, but then I decided to rework it (kudos to me). I keep forgetting that gouache is a medium that when dry, it can be easily reworked and I shouldn't be too worried about messing up. Eventually I created in its stead this machine and I like the 3 black legs. Overall, a very successful piece; One day I might be able to incorporate characters in such a detailed style!

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