Painting - January Painting Challenge

My friend, Steffen, and I have started a painting challenge in January, inspired by a Youtube video by Storm of Steel Wargaming(who I believe was inspired by another video). The challenge is to have painting session of at least 15 minutes every day in January.

For me the purpose of the challenge is not that I expect to paint 15 minutes every day for here on and forth. By rather to acknowledge that in periods where my painting motivation is very low, just doing 15 minutes some days will still mean something. I suspect we all have periods where we don't paint as much as we would like to. And then, rather than get too disillusioned about not painting, simply doing as little as 15 minutes worth of painting once awhile will hopefully help the situation somewhat.

I have no specific painting project I'm going to work on during January. Rather I will just paint what I feel like. So this first week I started of with 2 bases of 6mm Pontic cavalry. At the moment my painting motivation is rather good so I will most likely paint more than 15 minutes a day. But I have had a couple days with only about 20 minutes of painting, and it actually felt rather good, that I didn't feel like I needed to do more.

First day of work. Just painted the horses.

Second day I added a bit more colours.

Third day they were done apart from the base.

Next couple of days I worked another 3 strips.

On the sixth day I was done with both bases.

It has been a good experience, and I really can feel the appreciation of not thinking I need to paint a lot more and for longer time. So it will be interesting to see how much I get painted in January.