a painting a day (1-5)

So last month I embarked on a goal to do a painting a day for a month..Over the years, I feel like working digitally all day is slowly killing my soul and felt the need to make an actual physical paintings (and drawings for that matter) a more prominent part of my daily life.  My constraints were only to do something with paint - could be from life could be from photo, could be a master copy, could be from my head.  Generally i kept them small, and generally i tried not to spend too much time on them (must resist the urge to fuss!).  As it turns out most of these ended up being from photos, i guess for convenience, though i am excited to try some master copies too, as i continue.  These are by and large watercolor and gouache with some pencil here and there.  though i've been trying to stay more 'watercolor-y', many turned out more 'gouache-y'.  Shrug..It's what i gravitate towards i guess.

Some of them turned out ok, some of them pretty crappy, and i'm still debating whether to post those, heh heh!  Here are the first few..