On the wall, my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2024 painting on the left, an almost finished 2025 walking painting on the right, the fabric for 2026 walking with watered down matte medium is drying on the table, and some other work in progress not in the picture. I’m looking forward to being off from work and having time for artwork, movies, and socializing over the next 11 days.
I was able to do a little more work on my new Wordle painting after not being able to for a few weeks. I started the third batch of 4 puzzles with the results from my custom 7 character word. The first two groups are complete. I was glad to have the pencil lines ready so I could paint after work and a few errands this afternoon. I plan on doing more this weekend, and even more next week through the end of 2025, and I will also be working on a few other paintings as well.
I didn't have enough time this weekend to work on my new Wordle painting. I was hoping to work on the third batch of 4 puzzles with the results from my custom 7 character word. I already have the first two groups complete. The pencil lines ready though for when I have time, maybe after work this week, or possibly next weekend.
This is November for my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025 painting, a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walked each day. I have documented my steps in paintings since 2016.
The green paint over the black icons represents my foot injury in late September, where I found through a MRI at the end of October that I have a hairline fracture on two bones in my foot. My podiatrist told me to limit my walking to under 2 miles a day (and wear hiking boots for support) for at least the next month, which I did. I met with her again before Thanksgiving, and she said I could walk more as long as it didn't hurt, which it only does a few seconds every now and then, So, after Thanksgiving I tried walking 3-3.5 miles, still wearing hiking boots, and I didn't have any problems. I am not power walking though, just walking.
The picture below shows my walking in 2025 so far, with room for the rest of the year. The gold background paint represents days off from work, including weekends, holidays and vacations. The red represents walking 10,000 steps or more, and the yellow icon represents over 20,000 steps.
