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 #309 - Quickposes

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Somehow today I completely lost control and it got this late before I even started thinking about painting. I kept it at a 10-20mins minimum today, doing some posture practice on the iPad. Sadly the site I had been using did some changes, and while I was merely 9h away from the next milestone, the milestone was pushed 39h away. Pity. It took me some time to recover from the blow; apparently I was looking forward to the "award" and felt betrayed, I almost stopped using the site today. Anyway, todays postures were fun. On the other hand it doesn't feel too good that it's been so many days that I haven't produced a new artwork - of course I work on existing pieces, but something new? Oh, I crave for something new, it's the only way to measure real progress in my eyes.
It seems that today I'm speaking repeatedly about measuring progress. I wonder what that means? Is it that I've lost my motivation and now I'm looking for a sense of progress to compensate? I don't know (and I am too tired to even think about it now). Anyway, the postures turned out okay which is good since I haven't been doing any relevant studying a long time now. I could feel my strokes not being very precise, and I definitely wasn't very clean but anyway all is well! In other news I spent many hours working with my new scanner (hence the tardiness). I get worried about how many hours I spend photographing, archiving, posting, blogging about my art and optimizing workflows. It's not that I'd be painting all those hours (it's my offtime that usually suffers), but it's somehow getting me tired and overwhelment and it's eating away at my willingness to paint. I hope it's only transient and things will find some pace soon. Time for rest.

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