The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Today I worked on the knee a bit because I wasn’t happy with it and I did the long sleeve of her shirt. Tomorrow I plan to start the glove and I will finish it on Thursday and then the whole thing will be done. After that I will try to put a bit more effort into my Inktober drawings.

Inktober day 8 is just a quick drawing I did this morning. I haven’t felt very inspired to put much effort into it. Perhaps when I finish this painting I’ll take more time drawing.

My dental surgery was yesterday. Though I had IV sedation, it must not have been very strong, because I remember the surgery and everything that happened after it (going home and whatnot). Last time I was sedated I lost my memory of half the day and I was a lot more loopy. I didn’t feel very out of it yesterday. The pain was tolerable, ibprophun was sufficient in controlling it. Today the left side of my face has been swollen, but the right side seems to be fine. Good news from all this is that the growth on the left side of my jaw turned out to be a partial wisdom tooth that hadn’t entirely been extracted. So no biopsy. Hurrah!

Today I had a mammogram. Those are never very comfortable and I get the results back tomorrow. I wish they had the results back today because I always get a little nervous after mammograms given my family’s strong history of breast cancer at a young age.

Things I saw on my walk today:

Intentions for October 6 – 13:

(I’ll put an X next to the intention for every day I do it)

1. Meditate – 5 days X

2. Take the dog on a walk – 8 days XX

3. Do art – 8 days XX

4. Cook dinner – 7 days X

5. Instagram – 6 days X

6. Run two 5k’s and a 10k

7. Run 10 miles on Saturday October 12

8. Run a half marathon on Sunday October 6 X

9. Play video games, read/relax for an hour – 6 days

10. Finish cleaning the house Saturday.

Painting Schedule:

Outline photo, grid, print out gridded drawing, grid watercolor paper Wednesday Sep 25 Draw figure onto gridded watercolor paper Friday Sept 27 Outline drawing and paint in background. Saturday Sept 28 Paint eyes – Sunday Sept 29 Paint skin – Monday Sept 30 Paint shirt – Tuesday Oct 1 Paint hairnet – Wednesday Oct 2 Paint mask – Thursday Oct 3 Paint knees — Sunday Oct 6 Paint sleeve – Tuesday Oct 8 Paint glove 1/2 – Wednesday Oct 10 Finish painting glove – Thursday Oct 11