Texture and mark-making

The aim of this exercise is to create a direct route of communication between your hands.

Blindfold yourself, and touch and feel an object or your face with one hand, and respond with the pencil touch marks made by the other. What is important here is that the hand that makes the mark with the pencil, moves simultaneously, is in sync with, and responds to, the hand that is exploring your chosen object/face.

MaterialsUse a combination of B, 2B, 3B and 4B pencils or graphite sticks on white cartridge paper

SubjectYou should use a tactile object or you can create a self portrait

Drawing Project 1: A Tactile Object/Portrait

Example

Example

The aim of this exercise is to explore and experiment with creating marks with a range of different tools that you may not usually use for creating Art.

Be creative and learn and explore techniques that you could use to create interesting, original drawings

MaterialsThis is up to you…. pencil, ink, wax, watercolour, biro,pens etc….

SubjectYou should study your surroundings to inspire the patterns and mark-making that you create

Drawing Project 2: Mark-making

Mediums used - Indian ink, white paint, PVA glue, blue dye, candle wax, sticks and card for texture

You are going to use the following techniques to represent texture…

The side of your chalk, twiddling, circles, cross- hatching and ‘S’ shapes.

Drawing Project 3: Mark-making

Lena Ohlen

Joan Mitchell

Jan Schoonhoven

(1914-1994), Drawings

Jasper Johns

‘Target’

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Deadline: 16th September

This week……-Complete a page on an Artist who uses mark-making in their drawings.-Create at least one large blind drawing (at least A3 size)-Mark-Making Natural Form drawing (at least A3 size)-Create an A1 sheet of mark-making experiments

You could also… create a page of mark-making experiments in your sketchbook and further drawings