Approaches to drawing through materials and mark-making
Explore mark-making through a series of structured exercises and visual experiments. You will be encouraged to let the materials, tools, techniques and the process of making help to inform your outcomes. You can expect to produce a collection of works on paper that exist as experiments and explorations rather than resolved, finished pieces. The course is intended as a catalyst for developing your own visual language and vocabulary.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 9 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 9 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.
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Introduction to tutor Joanna Veevers and workshop overview
Getting started
Workshops
Getting started
- Health and safety, materials, tools and equipment
Workshops
- Preparation: make simple books from paper
- Explore abstract line and mark-making
- Composition: responding to landscape and nature
- Rubbings and ink surfaces
- Making a collage
- Making monoprints
- Further ideas for going forward
Course includes:
Materials
Tools and equipment
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
Materials
- A range of papers to make up the books which could include 220g cartridge paper, watercolour paper, newsprint, tracing paper etc
- Thin paper for rubbings – layout paper, newsprint, photocopy paper, greaseproof paper etc
- Papers for monoprinting – Japanese papers, old dress patterns and pages from old books etc
- Water based drawing ink black and/or blue – avoid ink that has shellac in it – Parker Quink Ink is recommended
- Graphite stick 6B and 9B
- Pencils; HB, 2B and 6B
- Wax crayons including white
- Plastic eraser
- A small soft cloth
- Small quantity of table salt
- Absorbent paper towel
- Oil based printing ink (water soluble) – preferably 3 colours, black, red and blue (you could add white)
- Glue stick and/or PVA glue
- Bic biro
- Off-cuts of mounting board
- Fluorescent gaffer tape
Tools and equipment
- Kebab skewers
- Paintbrushes size 8, 10 and 14
- Water pot
- Palette knife
- A printing roller
- Found sheets that can be used for creating textures through rubbings and printing
- Sheet of smooth plastic or glass to use for printing
- Conventional and non-conventional tools that you could draw with
- A twig sharpened to a point using a Stanley knife
- A table
- Bone folder
- An etching needle
- A stapler
- Sewing tracing wheel
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Joanna Veevers
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