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naarmamo is a comm started by jekesta ... six years ago, now ??Anyway, it's loosely modeled after National Novel-Writing Month. Only instead of creating one long piece of writing, the goal is to create one small piece of art each day... so at the end of the month, you will have 31 new pieces of art to your name that didn't exist before.
And "Art" here is defined as loosely as possible -- seriously.
In the past, we've had:
People doodling designs in the soap suds while they took a bath, or
Artfully arranging the jars of jelly they just made,
Full-blown, carefully painted landscapes,
Journal (100 pixel square) Icons
Brief pieces of composed ditties...
And everything in between.
Anyway, participating in this, for me, has been a way to lift my spirits through the hump that is the summer doldrums. So you can be damned sure I'll be doing this again. I thought, here, that I'd like to make a list of things I'd like to try, this year. So if I get stumped, mid-month, I can come back and remind myself of ideas I've had (not necessarily in this order):
A hand-drawn sketch of my own, bare, feet (they are the part of my body I am least comfortable with, and I want to get more comfortable with them) Problem: Getting a way so I can actually see them while in a position to draw them...
Another facial portrait (I've done one every year, it's a thing)
Make a video response to Vi Hart's Squiggle Inception (specifically ~ 3 1/2 minute mark)
More monsters -- this time, ones that are explicitly disabled -- perhaps after a run-in with a knight. Although... my "monster on wheels" is disabled... I drew another adult version who was able-bodied -- with eight tentacle legs, instead of four...
Some three-dimensional art... tactile.
Write a song -- maybe my own version of a Geek pride song.
And ...other stuff...
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Date: 2012-07-31 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 07:50 pm (UTC)The odd thing is, each one of my ten toenails has their own unique way of growing... it's like I've got a funky bouquet going on...
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Date: 2012-07-31 08:15 pm (UTC)Toenail bouquet, ha! Worse than Victorian hair-jewellery. I wonder what toenails would mean in the language of flowers.... o_O
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Date: 2012-07-31 08:26 pm (UTC)I wonder what toenails would mean in the language of flowers...
I don't know, but -- (Trufax!) My mother once told me a story of a king (mad king Ludwig?) who didn't cut any of his toenails for a year, and then, when he did clip them, sent them off as a present to his mistress...
[the True Fact being: my mother told me this story... I have no idea whether the story itself had any basis in reality]
Now. Aren't you glad you brought up this subject?
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Date: 2012-07-31 09:17 pm (UTC)I'm sure some saint's toenail relic has supposedly performed miracles.
Not only do I not have a toenail squick of any sort, but I have a row of aptly named Devil's Toenail fossils in my kitchen. :-)
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Date: 2012-07-31 09:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-01 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-01 01:12 am (UTC)I'll probably start with something loose and silly to get warmed up...