day #365 - the end of an era

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 myself a couple days off? This is something that I will probably struggle over and solve undocumented.
So here we are. Today's achievements. What did I like about today's work? First and foremost, I picked up a piece that I was too scared to resume! I was in the strange mood that I can give it a go. I think in part it helped that I accepted the already established palette as the final one: I remember the last few days I was worried since the unpainted spots were a big chunk of the paper and I wasn't sure if the piece will survive introducing any new color, while I was also unwilling to do some color-tests on the computer. Additionally I worked very freely, and invasively re-covering areas of colors without fear. I managed to get rid of a lot of the paper texture that I so much hate, plus I gave form to the green angel, the hair and the face. I'm satisfied with the face.Finally, I decided to do some reflections on the floor which I find very neat; Today I had the feeling that I was comofortable with pastels and I had entered a phase of intuitive understanding of the medium. Overall very satisfied.
And with that, I say farewell!

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