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 #341 - Castles

Today I was outdoors and my legs brought me to the moat. It's a beautiful place but I don't go that often since I am under the impression that the moat is not so sunny. Big mistake! Anyway, today I found myself there, have the opportunity to paint a new landscape. I did a watercolor piece that has some good qualities; clarity is not one of them to be honest. What do I like about it? the brights are bright, and the tree-trunks are ok. I also like that I did try to build the 3D space (but don't feel I succeeded). It was admittedly a very difficult scene and I was fighting with time; the sky was moving rapidly and the light-shadow play was shifting completely. Here I am making excuses. Apparently I don't feel like a failure. Well... The piece is not a very succesful one, but again, it has lots of positive traits. And for an unsuccessful one, it's amazing! A big step forward. I also enjoyed that I got to do some intense practice.
The second piece was a quick sketch of a part of the wall; Cheap paper, two blues. I'm very happy; part of it I did standing. I enjoyed both achieving likeness and the process. Doing that was of course much much easier.
Anyway, I did two pieces today, none of chich is a success, but both are fabulous compared to my other "bad" pieces so that amounts to something! Plus I got to practice some more painting from observation which I haven't done in a long time. Time for my rest.

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