Mark Making

Mark making as a visual language

Grace Wynne Willson

Artists

Robert Ryman
Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an
American painter identified with the
movements of monochrome painting,
minimalism, and conceptual art. He is best
known for abstract, white-on-white paintings.
The majority of his works feature abstract
expressionist-influenced brushwork in white or
off-white paint on square canvas or metal
surfaces.
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He
belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly's
paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like
works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colours.
 Action
painting

Jackson Pollock Abstract

expressionism
Franz Kline
 Surfaces

Etienne Gelinas
Mark-making layered on interesting
surfaces e.g. dressmaking patterns
or architectural blue prints.
One of the most influential street
artists to emerge from New York,
DAIN combines the visual
language of graffiti with collaged
old portraits of Hollywood
glamour stars. Crossing genres
and often working single pieces
back and forth between the street
and studio, DAIN combines wheat
pasting, silk-screening, spray
paint, collage, and acrylic. His
process begins with a black-and-
white photo that he layers with
old advertisements, printed
fragments, logos, and
miscellaneous smaller images.
 Visual Recording
Mark making can help us record:
Mood
Emotion
Memory
Feeling………

• It also gives us a chance to experiment

with
• media in unusual and exciting ways.

• It can help push your projects forward.

• It can help you out of a creative rut by

helping you put pen to paper in a free and
expressive way.
It also gives us a chance to experiment with media in unusual and exciting ways.

It can help push your projects forward.

It can help you out of a creative rut by helping you put pen to paper in a free and expressive way.

Move away from the literal depiction of objects, people or scenes.

Free yourself from objective context!

Ideas…

This would make a great ‘technical’ page in your sketchbooks.

You might put orange nets, string, wire,
bubble wrap onto a page press and
sponge over them lifting the string up.
See what happens???
Grace Wynne Willson
Grace Wynne Willson
You might use cups to print…..dip
string into inks and press onto
page, drag along the page, cotton
buds……experiment have fun!!!
Tear up old wallpaper and try
printing over, use different sizes of
paint brushes, drip ink , use tooth
brushes, bleach……be creative!
Colour

Grace Wynne Willson

Grace Wynne Willson
Grace Wynne Willson
Grace Wynne Willson