Oil portrait sketch and painting WIP – Daily painting day 334 & 335

When you’re doing a long term project, such as a year long one like the 365 days of daily painting, you look for little milestones to celebrate along the way..or at least I did, still do. It helped keep me going, gave me something to look forward to, and brought me another step closer to my goal.

This is probably the largest milestone yet. Tonight I’m in a celebratory mood because in exactly one month, I’ll be finished with the 365 daily painting project. So close! The countdown is ON.

For the past 11 months, I’ve kept track of the number of days I’ve been painting daily on a large dry erase calendar on my wall. Yesterday, as I was erasing days past, which were written in black, and filling in what’s to come in blue, I filled in the number 365. !!! It’s become such a habit, that I almost continued on with number 366, but I stopped myself just in time. I stood back, stared at the 365 in disbelief. It was a surreal moment.

I can see day 365 now. It’s right there every time I look to the right, and my eye automatically searches for it now, sometimes frantically. Where is it? Where is it??!! Ahh, there it is. The light at the end of this year long tunnel finally staring back at me. 🙂 Have to say it feels pretty good.

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