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 #271 - Garden of the Emperor

Today I went really lo-fi. I don't know why I did this, I decided to do an ink-sketch on my sketchbook and then add a bit of watercolors to it. It isn't the best paper, so I'm not sure what I was expecting; the paper buckled quite a lot. Then again, maybe that was the whole point. Something that could never become a "product" and yet, something that would brighten, and beautify my dull sketchbook - a low yardstick. After all, this illustration might had been uninteresting on itsown, but adds quite a lot to the sketchbook.
These are all rationalizations, since the moment I put my pentel pocketbrush on the paper, I wasn't even sure how much time I'd be spending on the piece. I was preparing for a very short session. Eventually it wasn't long, but wasn't too short either (perhaps 45 or 60mins? might had been close to two hours). I enjoyed it immensely - now I crave for a second piece but I'd rather not start; it's already too late. I enjoyed the simplicity, the lineflow, the intense colors, the "adult coloring book" precision needed! The palette that flashed before my eyes as soon as I had the sketch down. The photograph doesn't do it justice, the colors are really bright and fluorescent in reality.
In other news, the weather today didn't allow for photographing the other piece and spent a good few hours trying to find a way to improve my photographing setup.

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