The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

So I’ve been editing my book the past week and haven’t done any art. Going to change that today and work on an oil pastel. I sort of know the direction I want to go now, it’s just a matter of getting more competent with the medium so that I…

So I started doing drawings for my new series. I wanted to do some pen and watercolor studies before I dive into oil pastels. I’m feeling a bit nervous about trying a brand new medium. Not expecting much at first, it’s going to be a learning curve, but I think…

I finished my book! The last two illustrations were completed this morning! Below is an overview of everything I drew in December but you can also see it all in a little bigger format here. In total I have 115 poems and 50 illustrations. After editing, I imagine there will…

Here is yesterday’s illustration. I’m pretty happy with it, was a tricky one, but I took it a step at a time and finished in about 2 hours. It’s really been a struggle to do these last few drawings. My new deadline for finishing my book is December 18th. I…

So I finished Inktober! Finally. Here is my last drawing and then an overview of everything I did starting the last week of September. I managed to do 37 drawings in total, but two of those I didn’t end up sharing because they were complete duds (but I did put…

For Inktober day 30 I did a rose to illustrate a poem that is a play on a medieval Christmas hymn that I love, Maria Walks Amid The Thorn. I pulled lines from the hymn and weaved them into the poem. A white rose blooming in the darkness seems meaningful…