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Category: Visual Storytelling

“She drank alone…” Journal entry

Published January 13, 2020 by Kat Thorsen in China Marker Portraits, creative process, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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A quick creative project on last day of 2019: The Death and Burial of Cock Robin

Published December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, creative process, Inspiration, Journal, Meditation, Visual Storytelling
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William March’s Company K (1933) studies- ink, watercolour, coffee, salt

Published November 22, 2019November 23, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, Bookstore, creative process, Event, Inspiration, Visual Storytelling
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Inktober Oct 1-12, “Morfar’s Klass.” Old family photo studies.

Published October 16, 2019October 16, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, creative process, Visual Storytelling
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I don’t bleed anymore. Finding solace in journal pages.

Published September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Journal, Meditation, Visual Storytelling
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“All you have to do now is allow…” Sabbatical reflections.

Published August 26, 2019August 27, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Event, Inspiration, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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Turn the page- visualizing fading memory

Published August 11, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, creative process, Journal, Quote, Visual Storytelling
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Quick sketch: Young gull at English Bay

Published August 4, 2019August 4, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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Here were valleys filled with tiny trees and minuscule, tangled vines…

Published August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Crafts, creative process, Inspiration, Visual Storytelling
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There are times of no ideas… – Lynda Barry (but there is always process)

Published July 29, 2019July 31, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Inspiration, Journal, Meditation, Visual Storytelling
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Connecting with the journal everyday. Even if just to copy…

Published July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Graphic Novel, Inspiration, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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Psaltriparus minimus playing in a tree…

Published July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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So what is the relationship with the blog? It begs to show more of your life in it…

Published July 20, 2019July 20, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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Stream of consciousness #writing and #drawing as #anxietytool

Published July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Visual Storytelling
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Drawing process- trefoil knot found in the wolf

Published July 13, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, creative process, Education, Portrait, Visual Storytelling
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RIP Freddie Jones

Published July 12, 2019July 12, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, creative process, Inspiration, Portrait, Visual Storytelling
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I am at home in the mosses…

Published July 10, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Journal, Meditation, Visual Storytelling
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I am allowed to think freely. Stream of consciousness journaling

Published July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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The importance of doodling…

Published July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Journal, Meditation, Visual Storytelling
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Hi-a-tus from Facebook and Instagram to rejuvenate my creative process

Published July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Journal, Quote, Visual Storytelling
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Man klarar sig i många år på ett ögonblick…

Published June 30, 2019July 20, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in creative process, Inspiration, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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The Sparrow’s Nest

Published May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, China Marker Portraits, Crafts, Quote, Visual Storytelling
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I keep the broken bits. They illustrate the subtext.

Published May 18, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, creative process, Inspiration, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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Ut Pictura Poesis- the narrative potential of the drawing

Published May 15, 2019May 15, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, China Marker Portraits, creative process, Graphic Novel, Journal, Visual Storytelling
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“This Look That Was Only Yours,” a short film of my creative process

Published February 6, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artists, Artwork, China Marker Portraits, creative process, Visual Storytelling
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Nature moves through carcasses…

Published January 19, 2019March 10, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, Bookstore, China Marker Portraits, Crafts, creative process, Graphic Novel, Visual Storytelling
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Relaunch and new look: my online graphic novel “Molly, a True Crime Analysis, the third draft”

Published January 13, 2019April 2, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Bookstore, Event, Graphic Novel, Visual Storytelling
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Bird spotting with a yellow legal pad and a walk in the park.

Published January 11, 2019 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, Inspiration, Visual Storytelling
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The importance of being specific. Collage for 2019.

Published December 30, 2018December 30, 2018 by Kat Thorsen in Artwork, Crafts, creative process, Visual Storytelling
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It’s not that I don’t know what to do.

Published November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 by Kat Thorsen in China Marker Portraits, creative process, Graphic Novel, Inspiration, Quote, Visual Storytelling
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Born in Sweden, Katarina is deeply grateful to live, work and play on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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