Article · Lorraine Glessner Artist
5 Mark-Making Exercises to Jump Start Your Art
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 5 lessons
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
About this lesson
Five short daily exercises for building a personal mark vocabulary: blind contour drawing, paired opposite-emotion marks, marks made in response to a random word, music-driven gestural marks, and marks made reacting to existing accidents on the page.
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