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 #255 - Vertical Hamlet

I don't know how this happened, but apparently yesterday I forgot posting my day's artwork, something that I realized only now that I'm here to post the new work! Well, there is a first time for everything.
Yesterday's piece was another watercolor exploration this time on khadi cotton paper. It's good, but can't say I prefer it the simple watercolor paper.
Anyway, there are many things to like about the piece, but at the same time I can't say I'm too excited about it. It feels stagnating. There is a certain feeling of "too easy and too vague and at the same time, there is nothing interesting going on" about it. Plus I'm not liking my color-mixing skills (or I'd rather say, I'm judging myself as "not good enough and the lack of color-mixing chops is a proof"). Now having said all that, I need to remind myself that I'm here to counter this skewed perception of inadequacy (now is it?), so here are the good things of this work:
I like the statues at the bottom left corner; how they mix with the background creating this out of focus effect. I additionally was happy that the purple mountain-strip at the background (just underneath the clouds) DID work out - usually these "afterthoughts" kill the composition, but this one worked okay. I like the trees, and the purity of the colors in the clouds and the sky despite them being in multiple washes; I managed to keep them clean, well done (is this tone, self-irony?). The composition and the palette, are not too bad either, and I like that I experimented with such a geometric bridge/ladder at the bottom of the frame. Can't say it worked perfectly, but can't say it's ugly either. I also like the space created right behind it; the path bending upwards to the left, and the small plane in the center of the landscape, I usually have trouble with such junctions.

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