More Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025

 

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.

More New Work in Progress: First Group in Custom Wordle Project

I created a custom 7 letter Wordle puzzle and invited friends to send me their results. Here is the second of six groupings of four painted vertically in a new painting.

New Work in Progress: First Group in Custom Wordle Project

I created a custom 7 letter Wordle puzzle and invited friends to send me their results. Here is a group of four painted vertically. The first of six groupings in a new painting.

New Work in Progress: Custom Wordle Project

I’m working on a new Wordle painting with the results of 24 completed puzzles from my custom 7 character word now that the NY Times lets users create their own puzzles from 5-7 letter words. Here is the first entry that I received. I’m grouping them in fours for a total of two wide and three tall. More pictures coming soon.

New Work: Vintage Table Linens Reimagined #3

Vintage Table Linens Reimagined #3 is the third in the series where I am reimagining vintage table linens so they work in, with, or against the grids of construction fences. 

These  paintings incorporate sections of vintage cross-stitched table cloths and runners, monoprinted the textures of construction fences combined with handpainting, handstamping, collage, and stitching, on stiffened fabric.

Vintage Table Linens Reimagined #3 is mixed media on stiffened fabric that measures 8.25” x 33”.

Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025

As we head toward the end of the year, I am taking advantage of having the week off from work to prepare the final presentation of my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025 painting, a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walked each day.

Today, I painted black lines around each month to separate them visually. This photo shows January through September. At the end of this month, I'll share what the painting looks like through November, as I have been doing each month all year.

Good Week of Making Art

I had a very productive and good week of working in my art studio last week. The tall painting on the left is mostly finished. I’ll do the rest of the work on it Thanksgiving week. I have three more paintings in progress which I’ll also work on then, and continue through the rest of 2025 and beyond. I’m grateful for my in home art studio even if it’s very small.