The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

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…

So I finished this painting. It was really tricky to get the cloth looking like cloth. Overall I’m happy with it but there’s room for improvement. For my next work I chose a really challenging subject and am going to do two figures who are completely covered. I ran 3…

I ran 10 miles today and listened to Shift. Halfway through the run I had to stop the book because I thought they were going to kill the cat and I didn’t want to hear that part, but I picked it back up at mile 6 and was relieved when…

Friday was the opening of my new show Odyssey where I was the featured artist. There was a good turnout and I sold a painting. Saturday I left for Hood River to spend the night before the Bridge of the Gods half marathon. Sunday morning we got up early and…

Acrylic on canvas paper. 2024. 18 x 24 inches.

Acrylic on canvas paper. 2024. 8 x 10 inches.