The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Today I worked on the arm of the left suited figure. It was particularly tricky. The little bit of glove that’s showing looks wonky but maybe that will improve after I paint in the boy’s sweatshirt and the rest of the yellow suit that surrounds it. Overall I’m not unhappy…

Today I did some abstract drawing. It was really hard as I haven’t worked without a picture or tried to do something that isn’t figurative or representational in a long, long time. I didn’t feel like sharing my work today because it’s so bad right now. I’m only beginning so…

Today I worked on the legs of the left suited figure and finished them. I have three more days to finish this person which should be adequate. Next week I will tackle the boy being held up between the two men. Then I should be done with the painting in…

Today I finished the right hand figure entirely. The glove was kind of bugging me yesterday so I tweaked that a little bit and I did the backpack. Tomorrow I won’t have time to paint, but I will pick this back up and work on the central figure on Tuesday…

Edit: I didn’t quite finish the right figure but I shall by the end of tomorrow. My friend is coming over and I am going to paint while she crochets and we are going to watch Mansfield Park. I am hoping to finish the right hand figure today. No picture…

Today I worked on the arm and shoulder. I am aiming to have this figure done entirely by the end of tomorrow (I’m having a buddy over to do art with me so I should be fairly productive). If it takes me about a week to do each figure, then…

I did not do any art today. Instead I wrote some letters that I had been meaning to write for awhile. I have two pen pals I keep up with, one is my uncle in Philadelphia and the other is a woman I met online around 13 years ago on…

Today I finished most of the upper torso of the right figure and I will complete it entirely tomorrow (it needs a lot of tweaking as I am not very happy with it right now). Next I’ll do the head, backpack, and arm and that will be an entire figure…

Today I took a break from painting because I worked on my new PPE work 7 days in a row last week and I don’t want to burn myself out. I may end up working a little bit on it when my friend is visiting today because we will be…

I got the lower part of the torso done today. Tomorrow I’ll finish the top half. So far I like it better than my previous work. It’s a little easier to render a yellow suit as opposed to a white one like in the last painting. I’ve really gotten into…

Today I worked on the right leg of the left figure. It’s slow going with all these wrinkles and folds to paint. Pretty much two thirds of the painting is wrinkles and folds (the boy between the men being the only figure with skin visible). The goggles and face shield…

I still don’t like that right boot and need to tweak it some more but I finished painting the left leg. Tomorrow I will do the right leg and fix the boot. It took me nearly an hour and a half to get that one side done. I am still…

Today I did an hour of painting. I finished the feet of both the suited figures. It was quite an enjoyable hour and I listened to Mansfield Park on Audible while I painted. Tomorrow I will tackle the legs of the left figure. I managed to go on Instagram yesterday…

Today I put in the background. It’s coming along and I’m excited to start painting the figures. It’s going to get boring, I know, painting all those folds in the PPE suits, but I’ll ride the motivation while I have it. Tomorrow I plan to start on the left and…