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 #351 - Building blocks

Why do I even bother giving names to my posts? They rarely have anything to do with the artwork lately. In any case, I'm starting another entry mindful of the fact that this year is coming to an end. It's funny when I started I started without knowing how long I would go on (I'd even complain about it for quite some time). At the time I couldn't see the urge to keep doing the challenge subsiding. Eventually I gave up the notion of giving up. And here I am, finally ready to move on.
I'm not sure if there is a lesson here about not worrying too much about obsessiveness since (even that) runs out eventually; I'm not sure I would had decided so easily to stop had it not been for my instagram account needing so much energy. In any case, here we are today, Two weeks before the end.
Today I kept working on the last painting. I don't know if this painting will "take off" (perhaps not) but there are some good things that emerged today: I did some more extensive rendering of light, I worked systematically to shift the color temperature of the middle section of the piece. First by optical effects (by pushing the colors around it) and when this didn't work enough, I changed the very central elements. I also paid more attention to the quality of the individual oil pastel sticks (as I may have already written, some are waxier than other and I'm coming to understand how this is affecting my work) and finally did a lot of beautiful dark tones mixed with black, blue and dark brown! Later I did some VR sculpting another scene that is coming along nicely; and I am pretty proud of the anatomy.I can see how the last sessions with sculptures helped and look forward to expanding that! Time for rest!

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