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
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day #272 - Sketches

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Another day doing sketches. Admittedly this was a choice of practicality and laziness. On one hand I wanted to avoid the iPad and stay analog, and on the other hand I could't carry colors with me so I decided to give in to my boredom. I'm bored these days, I admit it. I need to find tricks to make it all more exciting! In part it is because I've been disappointed by the work I did last 3-4 years. While I have painted north of 75% of all days in the period, I don't have more than 200 "complete" pieces that I can show for. I have endless doodles, and sketches and the rest, but pieces are much more scarce. And my criterion of what consists a finalized piece is very very low. This whole realization has brought about a disappointment and a fear the productivity can't go up which now is expressed as boredom.
Anyway... Today's pieces, have been a return to black'n'white landscapes that I had been producing at some point. I tried to stay loose, and create forms of light with my brushpen. A few of them (the two grand landscapes and the wide futuristic mansion) have been particularly decent. The mansion for it's strong composition, and the other two for various reasons, such as the the rock formations, the multiple planes, the textures, the vehicles and the clouds.
The remaining three while not successful overall, they were interesting playgrounds; I got to test creating shaded human-bodies in one swoop, tried to make shaded spooky tree branches, dinosaurs, textures and a few cubes in 3D space! Now that I revisit my day's work, I'm fairly satsified with it.

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