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 #227 - Falling behind

I know now that I can't be scanning everything I do. At days like yesterday or day even photographing them is impossible. I just do too much. I could of course slow down and be more meticulous in my painting or I could accept that not everything will be digitized. Today I worked a lot with ink (the rotring, the cheap one) and then I moved to monochrome watercolors! I mean, why limit myself to black ink? It was very enjoyable; I did some sketches of my mother, some of some TV personas and then I decided to do 5minute ink (watercolor) studies of postures on quickposes. Fairly enjoyable overall and I did something that also feels like studying; pushing my skills a bit further. I also allowed myself to use plain photocopying paper instead of the sketchbook. In retrospective it wasn't a very good idea since the paper is too weak and the wetness just ruins it. And then I can't even scan it. Maybe I need to find something better than the sketchbook paper, but not too expensive; I liked the idea of a 3€/500 pages pricetag for my sketches! Plus the loose sheets are so much easier to scan. Enough for now. Again, no time to scan everything so this will have to wait.

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