Instalment 2: The First Entries
Instalment 3: Do Tendu Jetés en Balance
Instalment 5: They Don’t Know What It Is
Potato Nose Diaries (1977) Short: I am 15 now
Today’s short:
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© Katarina Thorsen 2018
China marker, pastel, linseed oil on wood. Based on Edvard Munch’s “Puberty.” (author of quote unknown)
I have been quiet on here for a while.
But somehow- the creative life putters on with audacity and hope. I sometimes question what my drive is and why I carry on despite at times crawling forward on my knees. But I am grateful for that audacious and hopeful drive. It gets me up in the morning, keeps my heart alive.
I feel the slingshot being pulled back, pulled taut. I am preparing for renewal in the new year.
Recall:
Whenever I feel overwhelmed or out of balance I turn to my version of The Slingshot Principle. It’s simply a reminder that in order to fly forward, often we need to first pull back. Just like a slingshot, the real power and velocity comes from being stretched and pulled… but in a backwards motion. It’s that backwards motion that is the hardest direction for us to go but vitally important if we are to create momentum, speed and forward progress.
– Daniel Decker, The Slingshot Principle
Check out Brain Picking’s:
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)
My dear friend, filmmaker Patti Henderson, requested we start a mutual journal sharing. Do a page on hope, dream, goal, gratitude. Then take a picture and send it. Lather, rinse, repeat. Here is my first page.
Author unknown
The Sketchbook Project 2012
Art therapy sessions (with Katarina, Miko, Alicia, Pent, Ryan, Emily, Maryellen and Sabrina) spilled onto the pages of the sketchbook.
Recall I participated in The Sketchbook Project 2011 and chose the theme And Then There Was None. You can view that sketchbook online.
The Sketchbook Project 2012
To see pages 1-8 go to LINK
To see pages 9-14 go to LINK
To see pages 15-19 go to LINK
August 27, 2011
Recall I participated in The Sketchbook Project 2011 and chose the theme And Then There Was None. You can view that sketchbook online.
I chose the theme: HOPE. Besides my own journal entries and drawings, I am including drawings by my art therapy students.
The Sketchbook Project 2012
To see pages 1-8 go to LINK
To see pages 9-14 go to LINK
[click on images for larger view]
August 25-26, 2011
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)
Recall I participated in The Sketchbook Project 2011 and chose the theme And Then There Was None. You can view that sketchbook online.
I chose the theme: HOPE. Besides my own journal entries and drawings, I am including drawings by my art therapy students.
The Sketchbook Project 2012
To see pages 1-8 go to LINK
[click on images for larger view]
Pages 9-10
August 17, 2011 (includes Alicia and Miko)
Pages 11-12
August 18 and 20 , 2011 (features Roar)
Pages 13-14
August 20, 2011
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)
Recall I participated in The Sketchbook Project 2011 and chose the theme And Then There Was None. You can view that sketchbook online.
I chose the theme: HOPE. Besides my own journal entries and drawings, I am including drawings by my art therapy students.
Recall I participated in The Sketchbook Project 2011 and chose the theme And Then There Was None. You can view that sketchbook online.
The Sketchbook Project 2012 [click on image for larger view]
Pages 1-2
August 6, 2011
Pages 3-4
August 9-11, 2011 (includes Maryellen)
Pages 5-6
August 12, 2011 (includes Pent)
Pages 7-8
August 15, 2011 (includes Miko)
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)