The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

I painted the mask today. Now the head is fully finished and I only have the glove, the long sleeve, and the knees to do. That should take me two more days but I’m not painting tomorrow through Monday so it will have to be next Tuesday and Wednesday that…

Today I did the cap but did not paint the mask. I was feeling intimidated by the task of doing both so I settled on just doing one. Sometimes I can only do a little bit of art and I did a drawing early this morning so I technically did…

My painting is progressing. The neck is looking a bit better and I’m happy with the cloth of the shirt and got it all done in one day instead of two. The glove is going to be pretty tricky. I’m breaking it up into two sessions. Tomorrow I’ll do the…

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…