The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Today I worked on my Bosch painting and got the background painted in. It was pretty easy to do but I feel like I have some momentum now so tomorrow it should be easier to start. I’m doing it on iPad in Procreate and since I removed the surrounding figures,…

I’ve decided to start doing something creative every day as my goal for December. It doesn’t have to be painting, it could be book binding, or poetry. Anything that just gets me to be creative. Today I wrote a poem. I’m feeling pretty blocked when it comes to painting, but…

I did a basic outline of the Bosch study which I will start filling in tomorrow. To simplify it a bit, I removed a lot of the background to focus solely on the bird demon. In addition, I did 16 figure gestures and 8 hand and foot gestures. I’ve decided…

I did some little adjustments to the head and goggles and I think they look better now. Below is a comparison between yesterday and today. It’s much more subtle now and the goggles look less opaque. Feels good to finally put this one behind me. It’s been nearly 4 weeks.

I finished my painting. It took three days of Ritalin to do it, but now I’m finally done with that damn plastic suit. The goggles were tricky to render but a welcome change from painting wrinkles. I’ve been working on it so long I can’t even tell if I like…

Tomorrow I am going to start doing some drawing studies and I am going to start my Hieronymus Bosch iPad painting. I need a break from my PPE work so I am setting it aside for a week or so. It’s just so boring at the moment because I’ve been…

To take a break from this painting I am going to do a super duper thorough decluttering and organization of my art studio. Because it is so filled with stuff from wall to wall, I do not want cleaners in it so I will have to do it myself. I…

I painted this little section yesterday. Today I couldn’t bring myself to do anymore. I’m so over these wrinkles. Tomorrow I might start my Bosch study to give me a break from this painting. I will finish it, but I really, really need to do something else for awhile. I…

I haven’t done any painting in days. Here is an updated image of what I have finished while I was at the beach. Tomorrow I plan to start back on the torso and legs. It’s become really tedious doing the suit. So many wrinkles and it never ends! Hopefully this…

I continued to work on the suit today. It’s coming along ever so slowly. So far I have re-worked the area I did yesterday and started on the middle bit. Tomorrow I am going to do the lower torso. I have yet to attempt the head because I am intimidated…

Today I did a bit of the torso and started the neck. There’s still a lot of work to do on that neck area. Tomorrow I will finish that and start the head and goggles. I predict the goggles are going to be tricky as any see-through material is. They…

I worked on the left arm today and I don’t like it as much as the right arm but it’s okay. The glove still bugs me a bit but I need to let it go and move on. I’ve been working over the same areas for days. Tomorrow I am…

Wednesday Today I worked on the other hand and the rest of the right sleeve. This is going to take a very long time to finish as I seem to be only able to do small sections of the suit at a time. Tomorrow I won’t have time to paint…

8:30am Today is the Columbia Gorge Marathon and I am currently waiting for it to start. They are serving bagels and peanut butter with honey for breakfast so I’m having some of that. There are a lot of dogs here because it is a dog run as well (they start…

I worked on the hand, face, and arm of the little girl today. The day was fairly busy so I didn’t have time to do anymore than this. Monday I will tackle the sweatshirt and tee shirt poking out underneath. This was my first time painting African skin, and I’m…