Color Diary

This diary is a discipline
of practicing my art, specifically color, daily.

The image below is
March 17, 2020

I celebrated my 70th birthday
with family and friends and it became the last time to be together as the isolation began due to the COVID-19 virus. This inspired me to begin this series. By posting daily on Instagram, I felt I was connecting beyond my studio.


Click to see:
Video Interview
on this series

 

Installed at Kingston Gallery in the exhibition
Drawn Together
August 2022

The digital frame in the center displayed the number of works to date: 868.


 


I was influenced by
Roy Lichtenstein's
Perfect / Imperfect series,

Lichtenstein,
Imperfect Painting 1988


Each month I design a new image on graph paper.
I trace the design with a felt marker and color the shapes.

May 2020

My color choices are based upon news, weather, mood, observations, and memory.

The process evokes coloring as a child, the mediium reminds me of stained glass church windows, and the repetition is comforting.

The artist On Kawara died in June 2014 at the age of 81,or at the age of 29,771 days. Starting in 1966, he created nearly three thousand “Date Paintings”.
As Peter Schjeldahl states: “Kawara’s art evokes a cosmic perspective,
by which his own life and,
by extension, the lives of us all register as a negligible spark in time.”

Diary works are permanent marker and colored pencil on archival polyester film.
4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

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January 7, 2026
ICE agents fatally shoot
Renee Nicole Good
in Minneapolis.

September 1, 2025
Workers over Billionaires..

 


September 11, 2025
NEVER FORGET.
Note: the previous years right and below



September 11, 2024
NEVER FORGET.



September 11, 2023 - Never forget.

 

September 11, 2022 - Never forget.


August 7, 2025
Our 49th wedding anniversary, still in love.

June 14, 2025
NO KINGS.


August 14, 2025
Support Ukraine.



November 6, 2024
I've been so out of sorts that I didn't
post yesterday.



November 3, 2020
Election Day.


January 6, 2021
Trump mob invades the U.S. Capitol.



June 25, 2022
The Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade.


July 1, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.



May 25, 2020
George Floyd is killed during an arrest
in Minneapolis.



April 21, 2021
Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty on all
three counts in the murder
of George Floyd.


March 14, 2021
I am grateful to be fully vaccinated.



June 21, 2020
The first day of summer.
A day at the beach. I am fortunate to live on
Cape Cod during this unprecedented time.