The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

I started this painting last week, but didn’t really get into properly painting it until this week. Last week was mostly prepping the canvas, getting the drawing onto it using a grid, and filling in the background. I hope to have this fully finished on Friday. Going to put in 3 hours tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday morning (with some breaks of course).

About an hour after I wake up I feel the most productive. It’s when I paint. I can write at other times of the day, but usually my writing gets done early in the morning as well. I tend to switch it up, write some days, paint others. But anything that uses my brain heavily happens mostly between the hours of 6am and 9am. I’m definitely a morning person.

The rest of the week I plan to work on my painting and I have a half marathon coming up on Sunday. Going to do some shorter runs and some strength training between now and then. I’m feeling ready. Last weekend I ran 13 miles to practice. Averaged about an 11 minute mile which isn’t bad. I’ll pick up the pace during the race because I always run faster when I’m doing a half marathon with other people around me.

I’ve lost 29 pounds so far this year. My wedding dress fits again which was my main goal. It’s a big snug, though. I’d like to lose a bit more before May 20th when we leave for Vegas. It would be nice if the wedding dress was a bit more comfortable. I can pull it off as I am right now, it’s just very tight. Would be better if I were about 5 pounds lighter.