Weeknotes 40

Happy weeknotes number 40! I thought about doing something special for this, but realized I have too many unfinished projects that I would rather work on instead. Perhaps when I hit 50. Once again, too much time has passed since the previous entry that I’ve forgotten what’s happened and what I wanted to include. Plein Airpril I finished 30/30 days of the plein airpril painting challenge! This was my third year doing it and my first time doing all 30 days in an art challenge. It was a lot of fun! I started off feeling quite rusty, having not painted much since last April (and I wonder why I don’t improve…) but by the end I was feeling much more confident in my abilities. A few firsts this year: I started using a solid brush in Procreate; I used some movie frames as reference instead of strictly my own photos; I painted a bird. Some highlights: Day 5. This was the longest I spent on a painting (2h40m), and it was challenging because of the glass, which I underestimated lol Day 9. This…