by Marty Coleman | Jan 3, 2014 | I Draw in Church |
Who’s at Church on the Last Day of the Year Today – A Poem
She was alone,
But she smiled at a friend.
Her makeup was dark,
But her smile was light.
He had a ponytail,
But he took it out.
He raised his hands
And said things out loud.
She had on a long skirt that swayed
And raised her hands as well.
But they were facing her,
And then she put glasses on.
He wore red pants,
He didn’t sing all the songs
And he kept his scarf on and
He gave no money.
Marty Coleman, 12/29/13 – 1/3/14
I was going to show her the drawing as I left the balcony at church but she saw some friends and I didn’t want to interrupt. I saw her on the way out of the church a while later and showed it to her then. She seemed happy about it, though one can never be completely sure of those things.
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by Marty Coleman | Jul 11, 2010 | I Draw in Church |
I finished my sketchbook recently. It took 2 years, 3 months and 25 days to draw in 117 pages. I received the sketchbook as a gift from my nephews at Christmas, 2004. But I had a backlog of sketchbooks and didn’t start it until March, 2nd, 2008. It’s done now and this is the final drawing in it, June 27th, 2010.
I love filling up one of them, counting the pages until the end, wondering what my final drawing will be. I have about 29 completed sketchbooks on my shelves, dating back to 1972, when I was in high school. I have some that are about 2 inches by 3 inches, filled with little color drawings. I have others that are in ornate leather bound covers. One yet to be used sketchbook was hand made by my daughter and is covered in fabric and resides inside a fabric bag. I have some filled with adolescent crazed meanderings, some have poems. Some have sincere notes about God or no God. Others have naked people.
I have some that include sketches for larger art pieces I created, some I never did finish. Some have diagrams of house layouts with notes as to what I am going to do in each room. Some have addresses and phone numbers and emails of people I drew. I would scan the drawing and send it to them. If I ever did a drawing of you and I didn’t send you a copy of it, tell me and I will try to find it.
I might try to post one drawing a week, one from each sketchbook, starting from the beginning. Would you like that?
I am also going to start working on some larger images in the near future, non-photographic. I will keep you informed.
Drawing © Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | Jun 27, 2010 | I Draw in Church, Sketchbook History Tour, Tulsa |
It’s ‘I draw in Church Sunday’ here at The Napkin Dad Daily. I draw a lot. In bookstores, trains, plains, waiting rooms, and my favorite place to draw, church.
She sat in front of us on a warm summer day at church. I enjoyed seeing the cosmic message from the pulpit on the skin of a person right in front of me.
Drawn at All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 6/24/07 © Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | Jun 13, 2010 | I Draw in Church, Sketchbook History Tour |
I love seeing people all in a row with strikingly different hair, skin, fabric and style. Church is perfect for that sort of people watching.
Drawing © Marty Coleman
Drawn 7/12/09, All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, OK
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by Marty Coleman | Jun 6, 2010 | I Draw in Church, Sketchbook History Tour |
It’s ‘I draw in church’ Sunday. Sometimes I am not drawing a scene or person in church, but an idea that germinated from the sermon. This one had something to do with prayer, but I don’t remember the specifics (it was 19 years ago, give me a break).
Drawn 3/10/91 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, San Jose, California. We went to ‘WesPres’ for almost a decade before we moved to Tulsa in 1994. It had the usual amount of drama, Pastors coming and going, etc. but more importantly it had a fantastic group of friends who supported us and our children and allowed us to support them as well. I look back on those days fondly.
Drawing © Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | May 23, 2010 | I Draw in Church, Sunday |
Sunday is ‘I draw in church’ day
Sometimes even in color. This was drawn 16 years ago, 1/15/94, in California. You can see not all that much has changed. I still like turtles, cities in the distance, puffy clouds, oceans and volcanoes.
Drawing © Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | May 2, 2010 | I Draw in Church |
Here is my Sunday ‘I draw in church’ offering.
Taken from my 1997 sketchbook. I used a typical ball point pen. Drawn at Asbury United Methodist Church in Tulsa, OK where we were going at the time.
The woman in the foreground was a friend of ours. She had done some sort of magic to her hair that morning because it was perfectly coiffed and very shiny. The woman behind her had nice hair too, but it was SO wildly different that I was drawn to the juxtaposition.
Drawing © Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | Apr 25, 2010 | I Draw in Church |
Sometimes I don’t draw anyone in particular in my drawings done in church. I might notice something; a sleeve length, hair style, eyebrows, etc. of someone sitting close by or saw walk in. I will keep that in my mind when I start to draw and incorporate it as a starting point.
The rest of the drawing might follow the sermon line, maybe it won’t. By the way, if you are wondering if I remember the sermon or not due to my drawing instead of just sitting there, I can tell you I do remember it quite well. This one for example, was obviously about a door in the sky and on the ground with a turtle and box pointing at them. See, I remembered!
P.S. When you get this Sunday morning I will be in the middle of running my first marathon! It is the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. Wish me luck!
Drawing and commentary © 2016 Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | Apr 18, 2010 | I Draw in Church, Sunday |
On Sundays I am posting drawings I do in church. This one was done in March, 2006.
The beautifully coiffed mother sitting very still while her down syndrome child fidgeted and touched everything around him including his father but he never touched her once and she has a tired, strong face that speaks to her pain and vanity and dreams deferred and love she goes to church to find and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and tries and…
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by Marty Coleman | Apr 11, 2010 | I Draw in Church, Sunday |
Sunday church drawing. I have been drawing in church most of my adult life (that’s a long time). I thought I might share some on Sundays for a while. This is one from 2006.
Here is the text in case it’s not legible on your monitor.
“The upper class woman with the bra strap showing and a tag as well listening to the simple sermon by the Methodist who looks like that character actor who later did infomercials whose voice is coming to her as a flying turtle translating it into what she wants to hear so she can live the life she wants as do we all.”
Drawing and single run-on sentence by Marty Coleman, 6/25/2006
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