May Mark Making Workshops - with Margaret Feeney
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 collaborative painting using intuition as a methodology to make painted marks in response to music.
Using a range of tools (sticks, sponges, string, strips of card, bark, etc) participants are invited to act on impulse in response to an eclectic range of music. (Using a limited palette so the focus is on the mark, not colour.)
Now using paint brushes, we move around the work identifying the intriguing shapes of the negative space that the marks have made, and paint them to unify the work.
*subject to minimum numbers being met
Referencing the cross contour: an iterative, gentle drawing process-
We’ll use scrunched up paper/ tissue to compose a form. Then bind the form by winding coloured thread/ string around and around it to make a ‘continuous line’ soft sculpture.
Referencing planar structure: an analytic, stern drawing process- We’ll use card and tape to make a composite form – a planar object. We’ll then delineate each plane with directional line to make a dynamic, ‘broken line’ object.
*subject to minimum numbers being met