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A structured, sequential adventure.
Using willow and compressed charcoal, initially other-hand (not your dominant hand), and blind (not looking at the paper).
Using only elemental marks: the circle and the line. Experimenting with the core drawing tactics: mark-pressure and mark-density- we’ll play with the broken, blunt, dynamic, continuous, clustered, iterative, (etc.) mark to expand our expressive visual repertoire.
We’ll use drawing techniques such as reductive drawing, invisible drawing, and sfumato, and dissolve areas of charcoal with water and paint with the charcoal dirt.
And end with the mutable mark: by choosing your favourite marks and inscribing a flattened lump of terracotta clay with them- then painting, and stamping it onto the paper. As the clay is slowly compressed the mark shifts and changes, and the terracotta comes through the paint to stain the paper.
A structured, sequential adventure.
Using willow and compressed charcoal, initially other-hand (not your dominant hand), and blind (not looking at the paper).
Using only elemental marks: the circle and the line. Experimenting with the core drawing tactics: mark-pressure and mark-density- we’ll play with the broken, blunt, dynamic, continuous, clustered, iterative, (etc.) mark to expand our expressive visual repertoire.
We’ll use drawing techniques such as reductive drawing, invisible drawing, and sfumato, and dissolve areas of charcoal with water and paint with the charcoal dirt.
And end with the mutable mark: by choosing your favourite marks and inscribing a flattened lump of terracotta clay with them- then painting, and stamping it onto the paper. As the clay is slowly compressed the mark shifts and changes, and the terracotta comes through the paint to stain the paper.