The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

I did not do Inktober today. Tomorrow I will do two drawings, but today I really wanted to focus on finishing my painting. All I had left was the glove and originally I split that into two days, but I figured if I put some extra time in today I could get it done. So I present to you, my finished painting (hurrah!):

I got my mammogram results back and everything is okay. That’s another year out of the way. I do have breast exams every six months, but those don’t make me as uneasy as mammograms do.

Tomorrow I am going to clean the upstairs and Saturday I think I will start a new project. I’m not sure what yet. Maybe the pied piper painting if I’m feeling inspired to do that, maybe the book binding project, maybe another PPE painting. The rest of October on the weekends is pretty busy so this is our last weekend at home. We are gone three weekends in a row starting the 19th.

I ran a 5k today with my friend. Tomorrow we are doing four miles together and Friday I will do four miles alone. Saturday I will do my ten mile run and that will be by myself. I should get a decent few hours in listening to my book and I will meet my goal of running 21 miles for the week.

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 XX

2. Take the dog on a walk – 8 days XXX

3. Do art – 8 days XXX

4. Cook dinner – 7 days XX

5. Instagram – 6 days XX

6. Run two 5k’s and a 10k X

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 Thursday

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