Mark-Making Exercises

Developing a visual vocabulary through mark-making

Mark Making Exercises

The Vase/Faces Drawing Exercise

I’m reading Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain […]

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Bulletism – Rorschach test

ink, surrealist

Bulletism - Ink Blot

Bulletism is a Surrealist technique of shooting ink at a blank

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Blind Contour Toy

blind contour, continuous Line

stuffed animal blind contour drawing

Blind Contour drawing helps match speed of looking with speed

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Forced to use your non-dominant hand

non-dominant hand

non-dominant-hand exercise

This week I read someone’s Facebook post about an injury

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Mindfulness Guided Meditation: Drawing with the Breath

breath, mindfulness

mindfulness meditation drawing with the breath

This guided mindful drawing meditation that takes about 15 minutes

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Three-Shape Composition

automatic drawing, shape, surrealist

three-shape composition

In this exercise you will draw three simple geometric shapes

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Expressive Line – Agitated

automatic drawing, expressive line, surrealist

an agitated expressive line

Let’s continue to create a vocabulary of expressive lines. Last Wednesday’s

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Drawing simultaneously with both hands

non-dominant hand

Simultaneous drawing with left and right hands

This exercise involves drawing with your dominant and non-dominant hands

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Apple Cross-Contour

Gather Materials: Today’s Exercise Draw Cross Contour Lines of an

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Draw your Shoe

blind contour, continuous Line

Gather Materials: Today’s Exercise Blind Contour draw your shoe Reflections

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