The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Not my favorite drawing. I don’t think I’ll include it in the book but I might try painting it again sometime next week and see it comes out any better. If you don’t succeed at first, try try again as they say. Name the professional athletes you respect the most…

I haven’t yet done anything creative today so I am sharing a poem about creativity I wrote a couple of days ago. I do plan on doing some painting today so tomorrow I’ll have something visual to share. How do you relax? I read books of poetry and meditate. It’s…

So another illustration for my book. This one is from a childhood photo. I’m doing a mixture of current and childhood self portraits. I’m pretty pleased with this one. Are you holding a grudge? About? I am holding a grudge although I am not at liberty to say what that…

So here is a second illustration for my book. Definitely know the direction I’m going now. Watercolor pencil, acrylic, and pen. A mixture of self portraits of myself and a child and current self portraits. Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home. The furthest I’ve ever…

Here are some poems I wrote recently and a self portrait I did. This self portrait gave me the direction I want to take illustrations for my book; a watery, loose approach and black and white. That’s what I plan to do from now on. I am going to start…

So I am still painting self portraits, but I’m trying not to share them with anyone because my perfectionistic anxiety came back after I shared last time. It became really miserable to paint again and I avoided doing it for several days. I need to not have any expectations of…

So I’ve been writing every day and most days I have done a portrait. Yesterday’s portrait was a bit of a failure, but I worked on it again today and I like it a bit better. Still not worth sharing though. The one below is Monday’s portrait. Going to start…