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 #314 - Pi day

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Seems that lately, every day is a special day. Anyway, today I was planning on doing some watercolors or gouache, and wanted the space for myself so that I can concentrate only to discover that I had compnay. My plans for concentration were ruined. Eventually I accepted (that is a step!) my fate and decided to doodle casually while speaking since I couldn't do anything else. At that moment I dicovered an inexpensive LYRA "graphite watercolor stick" that I had bought some months ago and thought why not try that?
And so I did! I'm glad I did because the material is amazing! Inexpensive, expressive, intense, easy to use, clean and a beautiful mixture of wet and dry media! I'm totally sold though I'd rather not focus on black and white paintings. In any case, I'm glad I discovered this new tool!
The piece was a "failure" from the outset; I could hear my thoughts saying "nah, this isn't going to turn out into something I can put on instagram" as I was painting; which is not a very good way to let loose. Nonethess, I had enough clarity to know that this is something I'll enjoy doing if I manage to relax; plus I did post it on instagram (challenging my perception of what is good and what isn't, in an effort to both relax and experiment). If seen outside the beauty expectations for instagram posts, it's a quite decent piece. Actually, I'm shocked as I write this, since only now do I realize that I'm starting to judge my pieces by what IMO is marketable and not what I see in them.
Yes, it's quite decent. The face looks fleshed out, there is some effort in detail control too. It's not fine art, it's not the best composition or anatomy; but, there are nice elements to it and the process towards it was amazing!

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