Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025

Here is the month of June in 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 black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.

I was able to walk 10,000 steps or more on eleven days in June. The weather was sometimes good for walking, and sometimes bad because it was very hot. I wasn’t able to walk as much as I would have liked. On June 24th it hit 102 degrees in the Boston area and part of that week was in the mid-upper 90s. Not Jeanne weather! 

The Iridescent Bright Gold background paint used to signify the days (mostly weekends, but also including holidays, vacations days, and sick days) I was not at work, which usually gives me more time to walk for exercise than the days I am at work, with the exception of sick days (of course).

The second picture shows January through June with plenty of room for the rest of the year.

New Work: Holes in the Fences #5 Revisited

This is Holes in the Fences #5 Revisited, the fifth of the six Holes in the Fences paintings I created in 2010 and updated in 2025. I collaged a layer of monoprinted texture of construction fence fabric, with the large holes removed, over the original painting, and added additional paint is on the new layer. Each painting has one color from the rainbow in the background. In total, I updated purple, red, orange, yellow, and green paintings. The blue painting was sold to a collector many years ago.

More Updated Work: Holes in the Fences #5 Painting Revisited

 

Waiting for the paint to dry so I can photograph Holes in the Fences #5, made in 2010 and finally updated 15 years later. Thanks to air-conditioning it’ll be dry in less than an hour. 

More Updated Work: Holes in the Fences #5 Painting Revisited

 

It’s hot outside, which gives me a reason to work inside over the weekend. This morning I glued cut construction fence fabric onto Holes in the Fences #5, which I made in 2010 as a part of a series, which I have been updating 15 years later. This is the last one.

Thanks to air-conditioning drying the glue much quicker than usual, I was able to paint teal around the edges of the holes this afternoon. Tomorrow I plan on doing more painting because it's going to be much hotter, which is a good reason to do artwork inside.

Updated Work: Another Holes in the Fences Painting Revisited

In reverse order, see cut rows of large square-ish “holes” from the monoprinted construction fence fabric so the way too bright orange Holes in the Fences #5 painting I made in 2010 can be seen through them. This is the last of five paintings I’m repurposing in this series. Next, I’ll glue the fabric to the painting.

Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025

Here is the month of May in 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 black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.

I was able to walk 10,000 steps or more on eight days in May. The weather was good for walking, when it wasn’t raining, but I wasn’t able to take advantage of it as much as I would have liked.

The Iridescent Bright Gold background paint used to signify the days (mostly weekends, but also including holidays, vacations days, and sick days) I was not at work, which usually gives me more time to walk for exercise than the days I am at work, with the exception of sick days (of course).

The second picture shows January through May with plenty of room for the rest of the year.

Pottery Barn

Pottery Barn has licensed the digital copy of my mixed media painting in my Loss series, "Brightness, Boundaries and Time" and is selling it as a print with the title of Red Textile Framed Print. It’s framed and comes in three sizes, 18”, 24” and 36” square. I have a relationship with an art licensing company that initiated it. Thank you to them, and also to Pottery Barn!