The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

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.…

I thought I would share my best work of 2024 today. The first half of the year was rough. I had pretty bad artist’s block, but the second half of the year was fairly prolific for me. The PPE series was started and I got five done (one is not…

Today I did some torso touch ups and I worked on the legs and the cloth. I wasn’t happy with how the torso looked before so I went back and worked on it some more. Digital paint just doesn’t look as good as physical paint to me. There’s always something…

Now that I am finished and achieved my biggest goal for the year (13 half marathons), it’s time to set new goals for 2025. I would like to set four goals: What’s your favorite cartoon? The 1978 version of Watership Down because it’s a beautiful story and translates well from…

Today I worked on the body of the bird demon. For those who are not familiar with art history, Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter who lived from 1450 – 1516. He painted bizarre religious scenes as religious work was the majority of what was painted in Europe at that…