Being bad at drawing is really getting to me and I just want to turn to the comfort of painting based on a gridded outline. I’m good at that. I want to be good at drawing, but I’m so rusty. I used to be good at drawing once upon a time, but the lack of using my skills caused them to go away eventually. Also the inhibition is awful. I still feel like I can’t let go and just do art freely.
The daily drawing…
The daily poem…
I am collaborating on a book with a friend where I write the poems and she does illustrations. This is really exciting. I’m not sure how we’d go about publishing it, but that’s a long way down the road.
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?
I would be an artist at an opening for a big solo show in a gallery. I’d like to see how that feels. To have a crowd see your work in person. I only know Instagram, really. Sure I do include my paintings at small group shows in a local gallery, but it’s not the same as having your work in a solo show at a high end place. That’s something I’ve never experienced.
I did strength training for 33 minutes today. This time I couldn’t procrastinate because I had so much else to do. It’s getting really tedious though. I keep telling myself it’s only 30 minutes. You can make it through 30 minutes. This is good for your bones and muscles. As a peri-menopausal woman, you need to be doing strength training because you’re losing muscle mass and bone density as you get older. You need lots of protein and should be doing weights to combat that.
The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman 
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