I just got my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. It’s both exciting and intimidating at the same time. But mostly exciting.
I chose the theme of HOPE and am starting to play around with ideas of how to utilize it in the sketchbook. I may combine poetry and art. Or maybe not. But I’m curious, when you hear the word hope, what do you think? See? Feel?
Aw, yay! I’m doing the Sketchbook Project too. I chose “Time Traveler”.
It took me weeks to draw a single thing in it…it is intimidating. I had to sort of tell myself this doesn’t have to be like, some ridiculously awesome thing I can’t actually accomplish.
ooh, Time Traveler sounds great!
But see, at least you can, uhm, DRAW. I’m going to have to go abstract with collage and paint.
Did you rebind your book? It’s really flimsy and the paper is thin.
Nah…it is cheaper than I expected, so my idea of drawing in it with brush pens is out, but…I am honest enough with myself to know that I am too lazy to rebind anything. So pencil sketches it is!
hahaha!
Well since I don’t sketch, I’m doing collage. I’m thinking I’ll collage a background page and then add to it. I’ll probably have to take the staples out and stitch it instead because it will be fatter but I haven’t a clue how to rebind stuff so I don’t want to learn on this project.
SO COOL! Go, Susan!
And when I think of hope, I think of struggle. Flowers breaking through snow. Kids watching hard things in their home or neighborhood and dreaming a different future for themselves. Writers and would-be college students sticking stamps and watching the mailbox (or inbox). Parents watching their kids graduate. Couples waiting for doctors’ results. People in storm-ravaged areas picking up that hammer to rebuild. War refugees living in tents but planning an escape. Abused spouses packing their children’s basics and getting out the money they’ve squirreled away to finally get out.
So even though hope is positive, I guess I always think of it as needed by those in the midst of hard/scary times.
I guess for me when I recognize what I’m feeling as hope, I feel lighter, happier, brighter. Like I could recline on clouds.
It’s an excitement deep in my belly and my heart.
It’s a promise of things yet to come, good things.
It’s a baby’s laugh, an infant’s smile. It’s the shining eyes of children on Christmas Eve.
It’s the satisfied look on the face of a graduate receiving a diploma who knows adventure lies just around the corner.
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Office Depot, Office Max, and Kinkos all bind items for you. Probably in one of those comb things, but I’m guessing there are choices.
Love it! Uplifting and I feel your joy 🙂