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.
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.
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.
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.