Thinking to 2017

For the past week I have been focused on my watercolor painting and looking back at this last year. It's like a race to see how many works I can complete by the end of 2016. Looking forward to 2017 I see this momentum carrying through. As any person practicing a skill, writing, music, the arts in general it is difficult to keep a rhythm and stay in a state of interest. kind of like going to the gym. Yes I can go to the gym everyday for about two weeks before slowly fading off and not returning for months. How do you keep yourself going? Someone once told me that if you engage in an activity for 5 minutes its likely that you will continue after the time is up. This has been very true for me, and I practice this not only in art, but cleaning my room/studio/gym. 5 minutes is all it takes.