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 #259 - That Underwater World v4

For a moment I was considering not doing anything today, and instead adopt the 50 pieces that I did right before falling asleep as work of the day; after all it was already 6am in the morning when I did them! Then I switched plans, so that I would merely doodle a bit. Eventually I just did some refinements to the underwater piece (worked the figure).
If I can see someting good, it is that I didn't push myself too much. I just did a bit of work and called it a day. It's good being kind to oneself. On the other hand working on the piece has been very stressful and unsatisfying. Now that I'm verbalizing it, I wonder if removing the stress would restore the joy, or whether this is irrelevant, whether it's time to move on. This might be something good to test. I keep thinking that I need to become faster so that I can make more beautiful piece right from the get-go, since I can't find the motivation to keep refining them them.
Another positive thing about today, is that I did some mini soul-seeking and decided that I don't need to make my daily post appear "beefier" by posting the 50 pieces here, but instead own the truth that today I worked only a little, and that this little, is more than enough. After all, I don't own anybody any amount of work, I own it myself.

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