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 #239 - Is it 2020 or 2021, we're looking at?

I made this blog hoping to share this artistic journey of mine, with all the struggle, the small victories, the internal dialog and the attempts to reframe the whole experience. What I have not included however, is any drama that transcends the very artwork I'm making. But of course, it's not as if those things are not present. I might as well had been keeping numerous blogs, each concentrating on a different aspect of my life.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say, is that at the backdrop of this quest, there is the loneliness, insecurity about the future, social issues, family issues, the search for meaning, the sexual frustration, the disappointments, the despair, the conflicts, the physical ailments, just like everybody else. It's not that these things don't exist and all my mind and I'm some magical being that has everything else solved and is only thinking about artmaking. It's merely the I've decided not to write a full-blown diary.
Regarding today's piece, I'm quite happy about it. It's another imaginary landscape with a house in it (interesting - why childish houses?). I used watercolor pans again, and did an burnt umber underpainting that I built my palette on. There are many things that I like. The clouds, the stone formations, the palette for sure! the lighting. And while I find the colors a bit too transparent and desaturated for my taste, I managed to stack them up enough times to give them some opaqueness, without making them too muddy.
Another thing I am very happy with, is that I decided not to go outside for painting today as soon as I realized I had been pushing myself, and instead went for a walk (last light of the year)! I totally didn't regret that since it started raining and instead of a painting in the rain, I did a nice fresh walk in the rain. At the same time, despite it being new year's eve I managed to paint quite some hours, and even continue painting after midnight's celebrations! Time for bed now, the new year awaits.

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