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