The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

I finished the drawing this morning. FINALLY I’m through with the worst part of the painting process. The whole thing took 4 hours to do. Now it’s time for the enjoyable part, actual painting. Tomorrow I’ll fill in the background which will require a couple of layers to get it solid. Saturday I’ll do the face, arm, and hand of the little girl. Sunday I won’t have time to do any art.

5:50am

It’s early morning and I woke up 50 minutes ago. I’m trying to find a good radio show to listen to but X-Ray FM only has really sleepy shows streaming at this time of morning. Like new age, soft, long noted songs that make me want to go back to bed.

9:00am

Currently I’m listening to The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I got bored of Hercule Poirot stories as I had listened to 30 hours of them. I don’t like this book as much as I liked Hyperion (the first in the series), but it’s okay. At some point I need to read Dust, the third in the silo series by Hugh Howey. I finished Shift, which was the second book, so now I just have the last part left to read.

One of those giant European house spiders (an introduced species in Oregon) decided to invade my studio this morning. I drowned it in bug spray because the first few puffs didn’t do anything, so I just sprayed and sprayed until it stopped moving. It wasn’t even full grown, I’ve seen bigger. They come out of the vents and live in the ductwork of the house.

Intentions for this week:

(I’ll put an X next to the goal for each day I achieved it)

1. Get started on my new painting (do art for 5 days) XXXX

2. Do Instagram (5 days) X

3. Take the dog on a walk (7 days) XXXX

4. Cook at home (5 days) XXXX

5. Run a 10k and a 5k (2days)

6. Run 10 miles (1 day) X Accomplished!

7. Run the half marathon on Sunday Oct 20

8. Keep my teeth clean after I brush them (7 days) XXX

9. Meditate (7 days) XXXX

10. Eat one sweet a day (7 days) X

11. Play video games for 60 minutes and read 6 chapters of my book/make time to relax (3 days: Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

12. Stick to my calorie goals (7 days) XXXX

13. Get back down to 121 pounds by Sunday morning

Painting Schedule

Tuesday – draw in girl and left arm Wednesday – draw in lower body and right arm Thursday – draw in upper body and head Friday – paint background Saturday – paint hand, arm, and face of little girl