Am I painting daily yet? No, but I did complete my second 20-minute painting - only six more to go to fulfill my eight paintings per month quota. The monthly mentorship group I'm part of meets on Sunday, so I'm supposed to finish them in the next five days; definitely do-able, and deadlines always make me focus!

Speaking of deadlines, another mentorship group I'm part of, with fabulous mentor Kristen Palana, meets tomorrow and I pledged to do at least four blog posts, finetune my mission statement, and finish four or more paintings. I'm still finetuning my mission statement, but hope to have it ready for tomorrow morning. Another deadline to motivate me!

More about what I'm doing in Kristen's mentorship group in my next post: we focus on the stuff that is often hard for artists such as personal branding, social media, making AI work for us, email lists, and, of course, blogging!

Today's painting is my second of the 100 paintings challenge. It's a photo by our group's mentor Doug Swinton, and I painted it in 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes of finishing. We're only supposed take five minutes, so I stretched it - hopefully I will learn to suppress my urge to continue 'touching up' as I do more 20-minute paintings!