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Developing Your Visual Vocabulary: A Daily Practice in Mark Making
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Taught by Lisa Congdon
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How you make marks on the page is completely unique to you and is an essential part of what makes up your visual vocabulary. Your visual vocabulary includes the amount of pressure you put on your pencil, your color palette, and the shapes and elements you use over and over that altogether create your artistic style. Join artist, illustrator, author, and longtime Creativebug instructor Lisa Congdon for this month-long mark making daily practice. You’ll explore the basics of mark making, build your own repertoire of marks, and learn how to use those marks to create drawings and collages in different media like colored pencil, watercolor, and collage. Lisa will guide you through drawing everything from leaves to birds to landscapes, as well as one large final project where you can combine and play with everything you learned in class as you continue to refine your drawing toolkit. Find Day 31’s recorded live conversation with Lisa HERE.
Learn how to:
Here’s what you’ll need:
- 9 x 12 inch smooth Bristol paper cut in half
- Colored pencils and pencil sharpener
- Eraser
- Regular pencil
- Black pens such as a micron 03 and black rolling ball pen
- Watercolor paints
- Paint brushes in a variety of sizes and widths
- Jar of water
- Paper towels
- Acrylic ink
- Household objects or upcycled items to make your own mark-making tools such as a dowel or piece of cardboard
- Glue stick or liquid glue
- Sponge
- Masking tape
- Scissors
- X-acto knife and a cutting mat
- Ruler or straight edge
- Large piece of paper for final activity
- Heat gun or hair dryer to help dry paint (optional)
Downloads:
- Draw basic marks like lines, x's, loops, and dots
- Make marks with various media like colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic ink, and collage
- Use your repertoire of marks to make drawings of things you see around you like botanicals, animals, and landscapes
- Let go of perfection and discover your own unique artist's hand
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Developing Your Visual Vocabulary: A Daily Practice in Mark Making Reviews
283 users recommended this class to a friend
Diane Bond
Loved this class. Lisa is a great instructor and I have enjoyed every part of this class and others she has taught. Highly recommend.
January 2
Kathlyn Ebert
The teacher was very good. She not only demonstrated clearly but explained why she made her choices. I liked the emphasis on individuality so what your marks look like was good/right. It was fun and relaxing. I looked forward to the next lesson.
December 30
Ari
This was a great way to explore making your own marks, staying in a playful mood to create things your eye likes. It isnt suppose to be copying but exploring what your tree or bird or shapes look like? What is your favorite shape? what is your favorite lines to make? Finding your own voice as an artist this is a great leaping off point or rediscovering point.
December 27, 2024
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