The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Today I worked more on the mask of the figure. I’m finding it hard to work for an extended period of time, so I’m satisfying myself with a small amount of progress daily. It will take quite a while to finish the picture, but if I work on it a…

Today I worked on the mask and head of the figure in my PPE painting. The glove is still bugging me but hopefully I can think of what to do about it while I finish the rest of the painting. This isn’t my favorite piece I’ve ever done by any…

Yesterday I drew the figure onto my paper and outlined the pencil lines in acrylic pen. Then I did the background. Today I worked on the glove and put a second layer on the background. The glove was really tricky because the way it looked in the picture just didn’t…

Today I started a PPE painting and got the image picked out and traced. Now I just need to grid it and transfer the image onto the paper I’m painting on (after that is gridded as well). It’s a much simpler image than last time because I didn’t feel like…

Tomorrow is the first day of January and I start work on my resolutions. Here are the goals for tomorrow based on my 6 resolutions: You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like? My studio is my perfect place for all things creative. It…

Today I finished my Bosch study. It’s okay. I’m somewhat happy with it. Perhaps with time it will grow on me. Tomorrow I start to draw again and this week I will start a new PPE painting. It’s going to be something a bit simple because the last one was…

I made some progress on my Bosch study. Tomorrow I will try and finish the frame of the throne and Monday I will do the glass bottom. It’s sort of a relaxing project because it’s mostly just putting color and shade down. There’s not a lot of skill involved. I…

Today we opened gifts. Yesterday my husband opened his main gift which was an Apple Vision Pro but today I gave him his smaller gifts. I got him a tee shirt with a wire haired dachshund that looks like Margot on it, a small dachshund statue for his desk at…

Who are the biggest influences in your life? The biggest influences in my life are my mother and grandmother. My mother was an artist and my grandmother was a social worker. The two were very different and affected me in different ways. My grandmother was well educated and very lady-like.…

I went to the bookstore today and loaded up on books. It wasn’t something I needed but I’m very particular when I read and I get in moods and right now I’m in the mood for Jane Austen and I didn’t have any physical copies of her books (I have…

I have been drawing recently. It’s pretty rough because I’m so rusty but I’m sketching from stock images of nude models I got off Deviantart fifteen years ago. There used to be a lot of artist models on there allowing you to download all their images for free and I’ve…

Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc. It was my second week of living in Portland after 11 years of being away. My dad was dying of cancer and living with my uncle so I was to take over his old house.…