So…. how is my quarantine ‘Art Day’ looking like?
Nothing very extravagant actually.
After yoga and breakfast, I clean my table, setup all the papers and paints and look for inspiration for the day, scrolling the photos I saved (I do that whenever I see something that might be a motive for painting one day).
And then, with a bit of luck, I can not stop painting until it is getting dark :-).
In between I have lunch, and 2 x temperature measurement, and on the days like today, another PCR test – the last one before I leave this hotel for another hotel for another 7 days here in Shanghai. Actually it will be 9 days as on July 1st the celebration for 100 years of Communist Party takes place in Beijing and restrictions in (street, air) traffic is expected!
I make photos of the day’s creations with my phone (when the outside light is still good enough to do so!) and upload them to the computer.
On the computer I make some adjustments (cropping only), export them (a bit smaller then original) to png (it looks like this is a good enough format for the purpose of presenting them on these pages- at least I think so)…
I saw, that some of the exports were done too small, so I adjusted the size to be a bit bigger today. I keep the quality relatively restrictive, not to use too much space on the server.
Afterwards the work in WordPress starts:
- upload of the photos to the media library
- for each photo, set the metadata
- create one page per painting and save it
- the new paintings are added to the art gallery page
- write the post – like this one or something else to announce new paintings
In the Art Gallery you can find this ones added today:
The Red One (3)
The Red One (2)
The Red One (1)
Blue and Violet
Blue and Green
Corals
Blue with Dots
Yellow and Green
When all this is done on my www pages, then I typically make a post on FB and instagram… I am not using the tweeter or other social platforms… I guess I need to start using the WeChat now :-)!
I did one announcement on LinkedIn – but am not doing it regularly, as I do not think that is the appropriate media (probably one more when I will do the last post about the quarantine).
How do you like it so far?
You are welcome to rate/ leave some comment.
I am looking forward to it!