The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Today’s drawing prompt was “remove”. I am trying this scribbly style as something kind of new but I’m still feeling very rusty with drawing. Yesterday I opted for the old watercolor brush style and I wasn’t too happy with how the drawing turned out and I can’t say I really…

Yesterday we went to the art store and I got a massive piece of watercolor paper to use for a large frame I have. Because I didn’t have a board big enough to tape it to, I bought a large piece of thick cardboard to attach the paper to for…

Today’s prompt was “fire”. I didn’t have a lot of time to draw this morning because I have a lot of things to do today. The title of this one is Rabbits in Purgatory based on an old painting I did years ago and have since lost. I did this…

Today’s drawing prompt was “spiders”. It was a good prompt for me because it brings up visceral feelings of disgust and fear. I’m trying the pencil and pen route because I’m getting kind of bored of the Procreate watercolor brushes and the style I’ve been drawing in for a long…

Today I did the 2023 Inktober prompt “Angel”. It feels good to be done with another painting and to be doing something different. I need to mix it up a bit to keep myself interested. This drawing was done on my iPad using Procreate. I’m really due for a new…

I finished my painting today. Overall I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Though I plan to continue on with the PPE series I am looking forward to a break from it. My next project is Inktober and I will do a digital drawing every day until the…

I ran a 5k with my friend today and finished the legs of the larger figure in my painting. This is my second day of my September and October challenges. I’m hoping tomorrow I can finish my painting completely. All that needs to be done is the upper body of…

I’m making it a goal starting today until the end of October to do art every day and I’ll post my progress images here. Once I finish this painting I am going to just do digital drawings for the rest of the time to give myself a break from physical…

I started work on my new painting. So far I have the lines of the figures painted on and the background painted solid. Now I just need to fill in the people and do a linear pattern in the background so that the figures aren’t so centered.

I started a new painting today. So far I just have the line drawing, but I gridded the paper I’m using to prepare for transferring the line drawing onto it tomorrow. I decided against the self portrait series because it just wasn’t inspiring me and I wanted to do another…

I finished this painting. It was really tricky to get the cloth convincing. A challenge for sure. I like a challenge. For Inktober this year I am going to do 31 self portraits. I am starting in September because I want to allot 2 days to each painting. If I…

I’m still working on my new painting. Cloth is painstaking to paint and both figures are entirely covered in it. Fortunately I finished one of the people but the other is about half done at this point. Hopefully I can finish the entire painting tomorrow but that might not happen.…

So I got the lines for the figures painted in and I filled in the background today. It was really tricky drawing in the people, even with a grid to help transfer the initial sketch onto the canvas. This is an ambitious painting for me because I’ve never painted an…