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“This Sweet Simple Existence” - October (Inktober) 2026 - A Year of Daily Painting

As part of my daily art project 2026, “This Sweet Simple Existence”, I am painting one painting a day for an entire year and at the end of every month I will be reflecting on my experience of that month’s daily painting experience.‍ ‍

To say that October just flew by for me is an understatement. It was also the first month in which I finished my paintings way before the end of the month, at least 10 days in advance. Let me explain.

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“This Sweet Simple Existence”- June 2026- A Year of Daily Painting

As part of my daily art project 2026, “This Sweet Simple Existence”, I am painting one painting a day for an entire year and at the end of every month I will be reflecting on my experience of that month’s daily painting experience.‍ ‍Another month gone by of “This Sweet Simple Existence- Daily Art Project 2026”. As of today, June 30, I have completed 6 months worth of daily paintings, 181 paintings in total. I started June’s paintings a bit late, 10 days into the month, so I had to work fast. To that end, I decided to paint on acrylic paper, 9×12”, with each sheet of paper taped off at the halfway point so that I could do 2 paintings per sheet, each 6×9”, give or take with a white border around it. The paintings were painted using goauche, oils and acrylic on paper.

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