The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Today I painted skin, completing the rest of the face, the neck, and the bit of arm that’s showing. The neck is really tricky and still needs some tweaking. There’s a bit of light shining at the bottom of the neck that is hard to render. I think it will…

I got the eyes and upper face done today. My schedule to finish has been moved out to October 11th because I really only can paint for a little while each day and I had to break my goals up into smaller achievements or I might be too intimidated to…

My painting is coming along. Today I finished outlining the pencil lines and doing the background. It took a lot of paint to get it solid because the piece is 19 x 25” which is large by my standards. If I work every day for the next five days I…

It took me longer than I planned to transfer the figure onto the watercolor paper. Even using a grid, penciling the sketch took two hours. So I didn’t get to any painting today but tomorrow I will outline the lines I drew and paint in the background. I’m going to…

I decided to take a day off of art because I was feeling a bit burned out and not quite ready to begin my new painting. Tomorrow I’ll get back into it but it’s not the end of the world to go a day without doing some art. I did…

I have decided to abandon my drawing prompts and start a painting. Today I traced the photographic image in Procreate, gridded the drawing, printed it out, and gessoed and gridded the watercolor paper. Tomorrow I plan on drawing on the figure, painting the lines, and then putting in a solid…

Today’s drawing prompt was “frost”. I used a photo as a source for this one because I wasn’t sure what frost looked like. Well it’s not like I’ve never seen frost before, but I wanted a really close up view of it. Kind of an abstract drawing, but I needed…

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…