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 #228 - The Atlanteans

I hadn't thought that I might choose to paint on the ipad to avoid the hussle of photographing my art. But today that was the primary reason. I resumed work on the underwater kingdom painting further refining portion of the painting that didn't look too convincing. The piece has reach the point, that the illusion holds strong so now I can use my natural intuition to further refine it. Something tells me there is no end to that. The more refined it gets, the more I'll be trying to make it like reality.
Anyway, thus far I focused on cleaning the original brushwork (from before upscaling), adding some more nuanced and exotic lighting, improving the surface textures/glossiness (today I feel like I took it to a new level) and I also tried to improve the local contrast of certain segments of the piece. Of course (I'll say it once more) it's very regretful that the overall piece wasn't strong, because micro-adjustments can only take your this far. In any case, it's good for practice, and this is something I never had the chance to practice before, since I never made a piece with this level of refinement.
It's funny, because a whole cast of ugly spots have appeared now that the first harmonics have been tuned. And these are ways of being ugly that I had never encountered before. I'm exercises new muscles here, I'm excited!
Today is the second day that I don't have the time to upload images from yesterday's post.

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