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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:

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!

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I will just say this here: did not do watercolours since 2008…. Some of my work from that period you can see here.

One more remark: I have no idea, how this rating stars will work… can you please rate at least some of the paintings, so that I can see if this “item” is useful at all? Thanks!!

Update June 20th

The rating as I added below, does not work like that.... I found some plugns for rating, but it works on post/page level only and would not meet the intention from below. 
I will check what I can do in the future - I plan to develop the gallery page and there I think the rating will be functioning just perfect as every painting will receive a dedicated page, so the functionality will be just the right one.

Below you’ll find the “quarantine production” so far 🙂

Gallery of paintings

Yellow Roses

First try with the masking fluid.

The result is not really to my liking….

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Blue is Blue

Wet in wet try – just an experiment – not really meant to be a picture 🙂

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Reflection

Another masking fluid experiment.

I would do more windows like on the right side also on the right – instead of 2 big-window buildings – I think it would be more balanced.

What is your opinion (pls add in the comment!)?

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Using the watercolour pencils for the first time – I must admit, I like the classical watercolours better.

I am still deciding which version is better – in tube or in a pan. Maybe the tube is simple to use, if you have larger surfaces to paint…

Bathing in the Sun

Interesting result. Next time I want to do the same motive in a more “free”= abstract approach. (Though I know, I am not yet that loose to be able to do abstract!)

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Path to the unknown

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Rice fields

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A pink couple

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After the storm

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Tag: watercolor

Art Day in Quarantine

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

Art expressions

Gallery of paintings

Yellow Roses

Blue is Blue

Reflection

Bathing in the Sun

Path to the unknown

Rice fields

A pink couple

After the storm