November is for being creative

Posted by Jul on 13 November 2008

This month I’ve been busy over at my art blog, participating in Art Every Day Month. AEDM was started by artist Leah Piken Kolidas several years ago, and I’ve wanted to participate ever since I first heard about it. So far I’ve found it a great motivation and also a nice way to ‘meet’ other artists online.

Given that I’ve decided to blog about my AEDM creations daily, I’m also participating in NaBloPoMo, or National Blog Posting Month. The idea of this, you guessed it, is to post every day for a month. Just because.

I think both of the aforementioned November events were inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, in which I participated two years ago. Participants aim to write at least 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November. That’s a lot of words.

What creative stuff are you doing this November?

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Photo: Munich – Theatinerkirche, acrylic on canvas, 45 x 45cm, by me.

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Comments (12)

  • Gordon
    November 13th, 2008 15:11

    There’s another one of these Mo things too – SoFoBoMo for photography. We just started it this year

    http://gordonmcgregor.blogspot.com/2008/04/sofobomofinito.html

    Was a lot of fun. The Novel one seems a bit crazier to me.

  • Melissa
    November 13th, 2008 15:18

    You probably know, I’m also hanging with Leah. Loving the sky in this painting. You have a way. Your work makes me want to step inside and wander around these places. Purely magickal!

    As a side note – I felt a swell of pride, unlike any other in my life, when Obama was elected. I’m now very proud to say, “I’m American!” YAY. :)

    ~Mermaids~
    Melissa

  • Mark Reynolds
    November 13th, 2008 16:11

    November’s black skies/
    Trees bare, no mood to create/
    I turn to haiku

  • Jul
    November 13th, 2008 17:11

    Gordon – the novel one is definitely the most time-consuming, anyway… thanks for telling me about SoFoBoMo – I’ll check it out! Now I’ll have something new to try next November. :)

    Melissa – thanks for your kind words, and for stopping by this blog. Yay indeed about Obama. :)

    Mark – excellent. I suggest you start a haiku-every-day group.

  • misschris
    November 13th, 2008 18:15

    Gorgeous painting. I am really excited about this. Thanks for sharing!

  • hezamarie
    November 13th, 2008 21:59

    I love this painting! Im so happy you are diving into painting scenes of Munich. It’s a treat to see familiar spots in acrylic :)

  • Jul
    November 13th, 2008 22:41

    MissChris – Thanks. :)

    Heza – I know, I was thinking it was about time I started painting some Munich scenes. :)

  • naechstehaltestelle
    November 14th, 2008 08:02

    I’m doing the NaBloPoMo. It’s a lot harder than I expected. I didn’t realize there were days when I didn’t have anything to say, as I usually never shut up.

  • Dave Hampton
    November 15th, 2008 14:22

    The painting is really good; reminds me of some of Cezanne’s more prismatic work. Keep it up!

  • Jul
    November 15th, 2008 17:37

    Dave – thanks! I’m plugging away at several more…

  • christina
    November 15th, 2008 20:38

    Creative stuff?

    Well, yesterday I cleaned out the fridge, and the day before that I sorted the socks. :-)

    Actually, we’re remodeling our bathroom big time, and I hope to get started on a lot of Christmas cooking, baking and maybe some sewing in the next few weeks.

    Your painting is beautiful!

  • Jul
    November 16th, 2008 12:28

    Christina – sorting socks totally counts. :)

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