new year's goals and progress on a colored pencil series

It's a new year and I have tons of new ideas to try to implement to progress further with my art.  I'm sure a lot of you also have that beginning-of-the-year-I'm-going-to-finally-get-my-shit-together-and-work-quickly-toward-my-goals kind of attitude.  Well, it's nice that the new year prompts that kind of thinking, but it's so easily forgotten by February, haha.  I'm making a month-by-month type of action plan and I'm pretty confident that it will hold me accountable a bit more throughout the year.  This month I'm focused on simply putting the action plan together...yeah, I know, maybe that should have happened before January, but hey it's better late than never.

Life is so fast-paced, it's kind of strange that most of us have to make an effort to stay focused on what we truly love to do or we might not make the time for it.  Regardless of how busy things are, I figure even if you can only find 15 minutes a day...all those minutes add up in the end and get you closer to where you want to be.

I'm determined to make some quicker progress on this colored pencil series I'm working on.  I have 4 girls sketched out and have started on paper with the first.  Yesterday I spent a whole 15 or 20 minutes drawing...but at least I picked her up and made a bit of progress. 

Today I'll commit to at least 15 minutes again, and hopefully I'll get in a flow that makes me forget to stop and take care of everything else for a while longer.  It's too easy to get sucked into the whole mindset of having to get all of the day to day stuff done that we put off the things that feed our soul.  But you know what, my house can be 15 minutes less clean, so I can spend that time doing what I love.  Eff it ; )  Happy New Year!

~ eye should put on some Pandora, light my sweet aloha orchid candle and work on this chick's face some more.