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Part 15 daily journal workshop. GUEST SPEAKER. #arttherapy

Daily Journal Workshop: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS Part 3 HEART Part 4 SPILL OUT COLLAGE Part 5 NAKED SCREAM Part 6 INVITE ALTER STRETCH EXTEND Part 7 ARISE AROSE IN 3’S Part 8 SELF-PORTRAIT. HUMAN Part 9 WORD CRAZY QUILT Part 10 VINTAGE WORKOUT Part 11 GESTURE DRAWING Part…

Part 14 daily journal workshop. BE THE MAP. #arttherapy

Part 13 daily journal workshop. NEGATIVE – POSITIVE. #arttherapy

Part 12 daily journal workshop. Dear World. Secrets.

Part 11 daily journal workshop. Gesture drawing. Abstractions! #arttherapy

Part 10 daily journal workshop. Vintage workout. People watching. #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS Part 3 HEART Part 4 SPILL OUT COLLAGE Part 5 NAKED SCREAM Part 6 INVITE ALTER STRETCH EXTEND Part 7 ARISE AROSE IN 3’S Part 8 SELF-PORTRAIT. HUMAN Part 9 WORD CRAZY QUILT OK, let’s change things up a bit. Today we will utilize…

Part 9 daily journal workshop. WORD CRAZY QUILT . #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS Part 3 HEART Part 4 SPILL OUT COLLAGE Part 5 NAKED SCREAM Part 6 INVITE ALTER STRETCH EXTEND Part 7 ARISE AROSE IN 3’S Part 8 SELF-PORTRAIT. HUMAN — Yesterday, you spent a few minutes writing at the end of the self-portrait exercise. Now…

Part 8 daily journal workshop. SELF-PORTRAIT. HUMAN . #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS Part 3 HEART Part 4 SPILL OUT COLLAGE Part 5 NAKED SCREAM Part 6 INVITE ALTER STRETCH EXTEND Part 7 ARISE AROSE IN 3’S — We’ve done a lot of good work in the past week, and through our exercises have addressed our pain…

Part 7 daily journal workshop. ARISE A ROSE IN 3’S . #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS Part 3 HEART Part 4 SPILL OUT COLLAGE Part 5 NAKED SCREAM Part 6 INVITE ALTER STRETCH EXTEND Recall in Part 6, we spent some minutes at the end writing. Stream of consciousness, filling the page. Now circle every 3rd word. No matter what…

Part 6 daily journal workshop. INVITE ALTER STRETCH EXTEND. #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS Part 3 HEART Part 4 SPILL OUT COLLAGE Part 5 NAKED SCREAM Our journals are our private places to process. But allowing the world in can be very liberating. Today I encourage you to invite a friend, a relative, someone in your life to…

Part 5 daily journal workshop. NAKED SCREAM. #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS Part 3 HEART Part 4 SPILL OUT COLLAGE Now that we have connected with ourselves in parts 1-3 and let it all out in part 4, it’s time to focus inward to the painful part, sit with it, then scream it out nakedly. Close…

Part 4 daily journal workshop. SPILL OUT COLLAGE. #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS Part 3 HEART Now it’s time for practicing collage work in your journal. We’ll take a break from what we did in parts 1-3 and start on a new page. Gather some resources- images, pages from magazines, books etc. Scissors, glue, felts. Open your…

Part 3 daily journal workshop. HEART. #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Part 2 DRAW OUT THE WORDS In part 2, we “drew out words” from by circling positive and negatives. Where do we feel our anxiety? I feel mine right in the heart. Recall my post on anxiety and depression where I illustrate that feeling. Now, sketch a human heart. You don’t…

Part 2 daily journal workshop. DRAW OUT THE WORDS. #arttherapy

Recall: Part 1 JUST WRITE Choose two different colored pens (or felts or pencil crayons)- one color representing positive, the other negative. I am picking red for negative (fear), green for positive (serene). There is no right or wrong. Just choose and go with your choice. Reading the words you wrote in part 1, circle…

Part 1 daily journal workshop. JUST WRITE. #arttherapy

Spend 15 minutes writing. Writing anything. ANYTHING. Even writing “I’m writing…” Keep the pen going. Make marks on the paper. Let your thoughts flow. Don’t worry about neatness or wit or good grammar or sense. Just move the pen over the paper. Open up. Unpeel some layers. Be ugly. Let your arthritic fingers cramp up….

Drawing people together through drawing. A cozy morning at @YouthCO drop-in

I had a great morning yesterday volunteering at YouthCO teaching principals of drawing during their drop-in session! Thanks everyone for making it a beautiful morning of dialogue, laughter, drawing and sharing!

My vision board is started. Perfect way to process this heavy day.

Woke up this AM feeling like my heart weighed a thousand pounds. Today is the 3rd anniversary of Mom passing away. I was lucky enough to spend the morning creating vision boards with Laura Mack, giving me a place and safe space to just be. I’m excited to watch the board develop and to reflect…

You will add to these canvases of #streetart inspired artwork @YouthCO’s Tools For Change Event Oct 28 7-10 PM!

Finish pieces like this one at our interactive art event! The piece above is a collaborative piece with my student, Alicia Love and myself. Participants on October 28 will finish it! The art featured at the event is inspired by my favorite international street artists like Herakut. I start the pieces, we provide the supplies and…

You will add to my #streetart inspired artwork @YouthCO’s Tools For Change Interactive Art Event Oct 28 7-10 PM!

Finish pieces like this one at our interactive art event! The art featured at the event is inspired by my favorite international street artists like Herakut. I start the pieces, provide the supplies and then you, the attendee, go crazy and finish the pieces with complete freedom of expression! For what you can expect from one…

6 art therapists! 6 degrees of creativity! All in 1 fabulous package from @arttxalliance!

6 Degrees of Creativity is a 6 month on-line workshop opening October 10, 2011 and running until March 1, 2012 that will include 6 different workshops, offered by a group of 6 inspiring instructors from the art therapy community to explore hands-on concepts, techniques, and ideas related to themes about transformation, social change, collaboration, and using art for good. REGISTER: Click…

Hand-drawn poster: @YouthCO’s Tools For Change Interactive Art Event Oct 28 7-10 PM!

YOUTHCO HIV and HEP C Community Outreach INTERACTIVE ART EVENT TOOLS FOR CHANGE CAMPAIGN LAUNCH PARTY OCTOBER 28, 2011 7-10 PM 568 SEYMOUR STREET, VANCOUVER BC AGES 19+ CASH BAR INTERACTIVE ART STATIONS facilitated by Katarina Thorsen • heart • head • hands • YouthCO’s Tools for Change Campaign: For what you can expect from…

Standby for our @YouthCO Tools For Change Interactive Art Event at the end of October!

I’m in final discussions with YouthCO re: final date! And in the process of preparing a poster! There will be art, art supplies, fabulous people, interaction, cash bar (therefore a 19+ event) etc! Until then, here’s a detail from a large canvas you can add to at the interactive art night!!! YouthCO’s Tools for Change…

Bibliophile: #GRAFFITI. #streetart

Cooper, M., Chalfant, H. (2009) Subway Art- 25th Anniversary Edition, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books Almqvist, B., Lindblad, T.B., Jacobsen, M., Sjöstrand, T. (2007) Gates of Graffiti, Åstra, Sweden: Dokument Förlag (now Dokument Press) Stewart, J. (2009) Graffiti Kings- New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s, New York, NY: Melcher Media Emmerling, L….

Sometimes I need to remind myself that self-celebration is a good thing… #testimonials

It has been an incredible pleasure to watch Katarina work with our youth, some of which were the more difficult youth to manage… She has an amazing rapport with all the kids and staff alike. In all my years in corrections I have never witnessed an individual with such a powerful connection with the…

Kat’s Drawing Tutorial: Gesture Drawing PART 4 of 4- abstraction. #artschool

In this 4 part tutorial, we move through analysis of form, to drawing details to abstraction through gesture drawing. See Part 1: INTRODUCTION See Part 2: GEOMETRIC SHAPES See Part 3: ADDING DETAILS Now we move to finding the image and abstract it through gestures. What I mean by that is- you find the form in marks…

Kat’s Drawing Tutorial: Gesture Drawing PART 3 of 4- adding detail. #artschool

In this 4 part tutorial, we move through analysis of form, to drawing details to abstraction through gesture drawing. See Part 1: INTRODUCTION See Part 2: GEOMETRIC SHAPES Now I want you to build on the simple forms you saw in your subject in Part 2 by drawing details. Enjoy, relax, have fun! There is no…

Kat’s Drawing Tutorial: Gesture Drawing PART 2- geometric shapes #artschool

See Part 1: INTRODUCTION In this tutorial, we move through analysis of form, to drawing details to abstraction through gesture drawing. In part 2 I want you to build on the intro where you drew on top of a photo, and draw the simplest form you see in a subject. Let’s use my latest…

Kat’s Drawing Tutorial: Gesture Drawing PART 1- INTRODUCTION #artschool

My favorite drawing technique: GESTURE DRAWING– finding the image in random marks. Don’t worry if you don’t know what I mean. In this drawing tutorial, I’ll slowly take you from this: through to finding the form, then enhancing the form and finally decontructing/reconstructing the form. In this introduction, I simply want you to look at…

Kat’s portrait tutorial PARTS 6 to 8: Final project! #arttherapy

Recall: PART 1: DOODLE WITH RED OR ORANGE Recall: PART 2: DRAW WITH YOUR NON-DOMINANT HAND Recall: PART 3: DRAW WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED Recall: PART 4: EYES, NOSE, MOUTH Recall: PART 5: FULL PAGE, CLOSEUP This project was designed for my drawing workshop at this year’s Savary Island Art Trip for youth (12 young women, 4 female staff and…

Kat’s portrait tutorial PART 5 of 8: Use full page, draw closeup, add black

Recall: PART 1: DOODLE WITH RED OR ORANGE Recall: PART 2: DRAW WITH YOUR NON-DOMINANT HAND Recall: PART 3: DRAW WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED Recall: PART 4: EYES, NOSE, MOUTH In this part, I want you to be aware of the WHOLE PAGE. It may seem strange, but I want you to draw a frame around the whole…