Yesterday I biked around town to find a frame for a painting. My quarterly project is a themed set of paintings. The goal of the series is to capture a few favourite landscape photographs as paintings. I've done three so far; two are 7x10 while one is a 5x7 on clayboard.
I don't have too much to write about with regard to how the project is going, but I will dive into framing my first painting. Overall, it's a satisfying feeling.
Ernst Haas - White Sands, New Mexico, 1952
This post marks the beginning of my next quarterly project. This also marks half of the year having passed, and I don't think that I would have noticed this without marking the time on a project-by-project basis.
At the beginning of the year, I set out to do one project per quarter. Originally, I planned on rebuilding my Laundromat application using Swift so that it would work with iOS and CoreMIDI, a new frontier for me in which I have zero experience. At the time of writing that post, my final project was to be determined; I had a vague idea of doing something painting-related. I'm not sure I want to do the iOS application anymore, so I'm going to swap it with the last quarter's project and go forward with a themed painting series. Let me tell you about it.
This weekend we had the opportunity to try making a stained glass piece. It was a cool experience that involved many different steps. It was a refreshing break from painting and drawing to work with my hands. Here's a bit of a walkthrough of how things worked.
Yesterday I wrapped up my second Inktober. I think I managed to get a drawing done every day. As usual, I started with some fairly elaborate drawings which became more simplified by the end of the month. Weekend drawings got a bit more dedication, but overall I probably spent an average of 30 to 45 minutes a day on each drawing. A couple of friends also joined in and we shared our posts on a Discord server we share.