The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

My painting is coming along. Today I finished outlining the pencil lines and doing the background. It took a lot of paint to get it solid because the piece is 19 x 25” which is large by my standards. If I work every day for the next five days I should have this painting done by Thursday. Friday I need to clean the house so I won’t do art on that day.

Today I looked at Dexter Dalwood, an artist based out of England. His work has a bit of a collage-look to it. The paintings are piecemeal and the different elements look pasted together even though it’s just one big work. I really like play of light in the sky in The Deluge. It reminds me of El Greco. His skies were very dramatic and moody and he had a really neat way of showing light coming through the clouds.

I brought home all my paintings from the last show (I only sold one). Now I can re-use the frames and two of the works are going to be Christmas gifts. I’ll have to get another large piece of watercolor paper for the second 18×24 frame that I now have back. It’s annoying because I do have 18×24 inch canvas pad pages, but the matte is just slightly bigger than 18×24 by about an sixteenth of an inch. So I have to make work 19×25 inches to fit it properly.

Today I ran 10 miles. I managed a 10’20” pace which isn’t shabby. Because I was with a friend for most of it I did not listen to a book. About halfway I took a Gu Gel and that kept me going for the second five miles.

Here are some things I saw on my walk with Margot today:

September and October goals so far…

11 days out of 46 days without sugar

13 days out of 46 days limited ultra-processed food

12 days out of 47 days painting or drawing

Goals for this week so far…

4 days out of 6 days cooking at home

21 miles out of 21 miles of running

4 days out of 5 days of meditating

3 days out of 5 days of going on Instagram

Painting Goals

1. Outline photo, grid, print out gridded drawing, grid watercolor paper

2. Draw figure onto gridded watercolor paper

3. Outline drawing and paint in background.

4. Paint skin areas and eyes

5. Paint hair net and mask

6. Paint glove/hand

7. Paint shirt sleeve

8. Paint shirt