TECHNIQUE
Enjoyed moving through a series of ink and charcoal techniques earlier today, then having the day to freely play with them all combine things, try things out. In particular, enjoying rough and wild greylead sketches, making way more marks than necessary on the page, but finding precision through this - drawing each finger over and over until some of the lines on the page are a relatively accurately proportioned hand. Then going over these lines in ink or texta, but leaving all of the greylead underneath, the life which is added through still seeing all of the practice and foundational lines. Also, using charcoal to make the page dark then drawing with an eraser, the possibilities within this.
12/12/12
Realised this morning in a little post-yoga journal moment that I’ve lived properly in 12 houses, had 12 proper romantic relationships and worked 12 actual jobs. Feels like it bodes well for next year, lucky 13th one of everything coming right up. Numbers often add their layer of peace and interest to everything, I feel, pull me away from the literal and overthinky layer of the world to simply counting, enjoying the patterns, adding it all up.
CREATIVE UNBLOCKING COURSE
With all of the creative workshops and learnings of this year, reading through a few more books on creativity and feeling into my facilitator skills, I feel ready to offer a ‘creative unblocking’ course, which dips into drawing, writing and performance as a way to open people up creatively. I would be so excited to pack lots of activities and self-opening work into a 12-week course. Going to keep scheming on this in my journal with the plan to offer next year. Fully believe it can be really powerful work, that the creative unblocking can provide a new lease on life in lots of ways - social, emotional and relationship wtih self.
ON A HIKE THIS WEEK:
Kody led us in silence and then we stopped at the top of the mountain and one by one spoke something we’d like to say to our mum, something we’d like to say to our dad. Such a special activity, nice to really hear the shift in people’s voice when they say phrases like this. Something about acting in there, or public speaking in general, to recognize this reverence, this tone of ‘this is important and needs to be heard.’ Can be captured and used, I feel. If teachers in high school were able to find this register always, the students would listen.