Mark making painting

John and I had a fun day in the studio recently. We both wanted to do a bit of experimental mark-making, to explore new ideas. John is looking for inspiration for his printmaking and I thought it would be interesting to play with marks and compositions which could be the starting points of new drawings or which might possible translate into textiles. We gathered lots of tools and then made a few new ones, looking for anything which would make an unusual mark if dipped in paint: We decided to…

I thought I would try creating a sort of vocabulary of visual elements, and use almost arbitrary combinations of them as starting points for a series of work. This was inspired by images I saw on Pinterest by Olivier Umbecker. I'm not saying that he approaches his pieces this way, just that his work gave me this idea. It is something I'm going to try out at Big Fat Art Weekend next week, see how it goes over with the group. Here are the pieces, some tentatively finished, others in process…

Afbeelding techniekstudie door William Kentridge, 2012. #schildertechnieken

I gave my Sketchbook Practice class the assignment of making as series of "scribble paintings", and then cutting them up to make grid compositions. A scribble painting, or drawing, is one in which you are just making a variety of marks, trying to get some variety, but without regard for composition. After all, you are going to tear it to pieces, or cut it up somehow anyway. Here is an example of the process: Original Scribble Painting I cut up the painting and placed some pieces in a loose…

If you are stuck with how to add tone to your artwork, pay reference to the mark making sheet attached. There are a number of ways to add tone – you don’t always have to use the side o…

This project is for creating, dare we say, almost professional-looking art pieces even if you have zero training in art. Yes, it’s this simple. It is also an

2020 Topic 5: Mark Making Hi everyone, Keren here with a topic that's nearly as intriguing as it is simple. From the moment we first held a crayon or paintbrush, we have been making marks. As children we were instinctive and free and as we develop, it seems that mark making becomes more complex and we hesitate often, trying to make the 'perfectly correct' line, dot or dash. When we think about it at its simplest level, it's certainly something that we can all attempt. I suspect that freedom…

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A week of drawing patterns & making marks in ink, Throwing in a twist + hypothesis wrapped in an experiment: how does water alter|morph patterns? So I set about drawing repeating patterns knowing in advance that I would alter them — I like seeing how art materials react in different sit