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 #338 - Productive indeed

Today I've been very productive. At first I went to the ancient stadium not sure whether I'd be painting anything but eventually I painted some people that I knew and sat relatively close. Since I knew them, I had the confidence to paint them. Later on I did some sketches on 80gr/m2 and then I tried the 160gr/m2 paper I bought. I'm not very satisfied with it; It is even more easy to flake. Anyway.
The watercolor painting was important in the sense that I drew people (which I don't) and in the sense that I was very exposed while painting and didn't lockdown because of that. I knew it wasn't coming out very impressive, but despite the danger of people that I know seeing my "lesser" art, I did it anyways. This is something I wouldn't had done earlier. I like a lot about the painting and while it's not very watercolor-y, it's quite likeable. I don't like the composition in the sense that the light-dark juxtaposition isn't intresting and between the 3 faces there is empty space that doesn't make much sense (plus the one figure sits on the second one) but I like how the mass of people is countered by the ampitheater on the other side.
The sketches were a different story: Most (all but 1-2) were good. I liked the freedom, the size, the loseness; I liked trying to calculate how the bodies were being lit, I like the animals/steeds. I tried to be mindful of the light/dark play also. The last that I did, the deer-rider is probably my favourite. The paper was nice in the sense that it was slipery so it was like drawing on whiteboard. what I did not like however today (and I am exposing that here today) is that suddenly my day's work had turned from fine-arts to ... cartooning or illustrations at best. This hurts a bit. Hurting also makes me wonder what it is that I want. Anyway, today had been crazily productive, I worked on faces, bodies, I worked on exposing myself and I let loose. I need to be careful though because I'm feeling that I'm again driving myself to some overworked state. At least I found a quick way to scan/edit the images with my phone. Time for my instagram post, and some rest.

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