Day 53

Ahh... bad news.

I didn't draw nor paint today, which means that I broke the 52-day long art streak I had going on.

The idea that has been plaguing my mind is that the effort I've been putting into art... is just not paying off, despite improving a lot. I think I am tired of the small results and started craving big results, but art is not like that. I need to restructure my goals so that even managing to make small steps feel like a real accomplishment. 

Also ordered the war of art, maybe it will give me some perspective.

Anyhow, these are my small goals for now:

1. Finish all the quick color still life studies
2. Render one of the still lives, take at least a few days for it and put your ALL into it. It would be the first time that I painted from a rough color block into an actual fully rendered piece. I have done fully rendered still lives before, but not with a structured and repeatable work process. I am hoping that it will give me some confidence in my abilities and also learn a thing or two about the rendering process from rough to fine,
3. Do a few color block in of people, animal or anything that is organic and you would want to paint in the art you truly want to make.
4. Do one fully rendered portrait painting, be extremely picky with the reference.

(Wrote this yesterday as a draft, but forgot to upload this yesterday.)