30 Days of Creativity (2011) Archives

Father’s Day Details

All in all, today was a pretty good Father’s Day, weirdly crummy weather notwithstanding. Shannon gave me a great book of photos from the last year, Julia made a wonderful book about me (scans to come!), and all three gave me some new swim trunks to replace my faded, out-of-style old pair and show off my beach body. (Ha.) We did a whole bunch of things, too: bike riding and some easy home improvement in the morning, a nap and ice cream after lunch, visits to the swimming pool and the playground in the afternoon, hot dogs for dinner (alas, I did not grill), and now “date night” (two more episodes of Friday Night Lights, plus beer plus more ice cream) this evening.

Playing hide and seek at the playground, I snapped this photo, which I rather like and which will stand in for my fading ability to do a sketch every day for the 30 Days of Creativity:

30 Days of Creativity – Days 7-9

Three more drawings:

30 Days of Creativity – Days 2-6

I’ve been delinquent in posting updates about my 30 Days of Creativity activities, but I have not been (too) delinquent in actually doing them. My short story is about 1000 words long now, which is slightly behind my goal of 200 words per day, but I’ve done six self-portrait drawings, which has been surprisingly easy and fun. I’m not completely pleased with the results (too much crazy shading!), but each drawing has something good about it, too. Here are days 2 through 6…

June 2: forearm (no, really)

June 3: feet

June 4: thumb

June 5: right leg

June 6: mouth

30 Days of Creativity: Day 1

A colleague recently mentioned the “30 Days of Creativity,” which is described on its website as “a social initiative encouraging people to create stuff (anything) every day for 30 days in June.” I love these kinds of ideas; they dovetail perfectly with my own motivation (or lack of motivation). I’ve done the “30 Days of Biking” three times now, and last February I tried to watch 28 movies in 28 days.

And but so, I’m going to try the 30 Days of Creativity by undertaking two different activities. First, I’m daily going to write 200 words in a short story that I’ve had percolating in my brain (and on my computer) for a couple months. If I can get close to finished by July 1, I might “publish” it here. Second, I’m going to try to draw a self-portrait (or part of one) every day. Here’s my first one, “Forehead.” No, my hairline is not actually that short.