Welcome, lovely humans, to The Painted Presence Project, where I plan to paint in silence for ten minutes a day for thirty days, all on the same 11 x 15 inch piece of watercolour paper.While this studio diary will only include images, there are full length videos available on Patreon!
DAY TWELVE
I made it through surgery yesterday and while my eyeball is a MESS (it grosses me out every time I look in the mirror) and while it is painful and gritty and goopy, I woke up with a desperate desire to paint.
In fact, when the timer went off today I RESENTED it, because I just wanted to keep going.
Nothing spectacular happened (except that I’m upright, not crying, and PAINTING today).
I added some black outlines to my figure, then wiped out some of the Stabilo All Pencil. And then, I went in with gold, with the eyes getting touched first (like a prayer, honestly, that’s how it felt).
I can feel where she’s going now here on the 12th day of the 30 day project, but you never know what will happen each day, so I am trying with all my heart NOT to get attached.
Some of the folks in the discord have started a second painting because they felt finished with the first, and that’s valid, and I applaud that, but I want to keep going as I am. I’m so curious to see where we end up!
EYE UPDATE:
The doc made a barrier of burns ALL around the edge of my retina and touched up the barriers around the initial tear. I have a follow up in two weeks with strict instructions to test my vision with a thing he gave me put on my fridge. I’m to look at it daily and report any changes at all. I’m feeling very confident that this will stick, and I’m going to be okay, at least for a good long while.
See you tomorrow…
xo
Effy
P.S. Folks who are in my classes over on Into The Wild (my teaching network) or Patreon are getting video content every day throughout the course of this challenge. Folks who are subscribed to my YouTube channel will be getting video updates weekly or so. There may be stuff going up on TikTok. There will definitely be posts going up on Instagram.
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