Towards the end of the day, time was running out. This was an idea that popped in my head, and I was surprised to find that my comfort with general sketching has increased. I think it is a side effect of doing daily aesthetic work, the sketching is flowing more easily.

Every day does mean every day, even when sometimes that’s hard to find time for. One of the things I’ve learned with this process so far is that you have to explicitly set aside time to do the work, you can’t just hope to find time after the day’s insanity. This one is terrible, and I know it. But… it made me laugh, and it made my friends laugh. Also, I painted this while satching the Snyder Cut of The Justice League.

I had a teacher in art school a long time ago who was really enamoured with painting the light you observed, rather than the objects you perceieved - a single layer of light, rather than outlines and shapes and boundaries. He was particularly interested in semi-transparent surfaces like windshields, with their partial reflections, painted as a single layer. I tried that approach here. One thing that I’m struggling with is that my eyesight has degraded pretty significantly - just age-related presbyopia.

I made a commitment to create a new piece of artwork - digital or otherwise, every day. Part of keeping a commitment like this is being comfortable with some of the entries being not very good.