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 #349 - Reset

Today has been very inspiring. It was a frustrating day and I almost gave up painting in the balcony. In retrospection this was possibly to trying to photograph the last piece (Fortification) which caused me a lot of backpain which in turn caused me a lot of short temper. Not that the day wasn't frustrating already.
However (and I'm not sure how this happened) I found myself painting! I decided to start a new piece and channel my frustration and this piece emerged. This is probably one of the dearest ones. I don't know if it is something I could ever sell, but to my eyes it's intriguing. I don't know why I choose the poses that I do. There is something to it however. The palette got me excited, and the freedom to do something "mediocre" was very welcome after working on the same pieces! I (think) I've made up my mind that I should be less involved in perfecting my pieces which in turn makes me very careful and thus un-creative and focus more on getting more out of the door, so that I build momentum. Let perfection come as a consequence of many trials and errors.

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