1. Texture and mark-making

2. Drawing Project 1: A Tactile Object/Portrait
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.
Subject
You should use a tactile object or you can create a
self portrait
Materials
Use a combination of B, 2B, 3B and 4B pencils
or graphite sticks on white cartridge paper

3. Example

4. Example

5. Drawing Project 2: Mark-making
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
Subject
You should study your surroundings to inspire the
patterns and mark-making that you create
Materials
This is up to you…. pencil, ink, wax, watercolour, biro,
pens etc….

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

11. Drawing Project 3: Mark-making
You are going to use the following techniques to
represent texture…
The side of your chalk, twiddling, circles, cross-hatching
and ‘S’ shapes.

12. Lena Ohlen

13. Joan Mitchell

14. Jan Schoonhoven
(1914-1994), Drawings

15. Jasper Johns
‘Target’

16. 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
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Deadline: 16th September