October 24th Mark Making Workshop

17 members at the bowls club today for a mark making workshop.
Beginning with  D.IY. Session making our own mark making tools, and exploring their mark making potential.
​Sticks of all kinds, coffee stirrers, satay sticks, matchsticks , cocktail sticks were topped bits of ‘Brillo’ pad, plastic milk carton cut into various shapes or fringed to form effective mark making tools

We began  some experimental mark making, to see the different marks that each tool could produce.

Next we divided a large A2 sheet of paper with masking tape, and using a large brush and three different colours of acrylic paint quickly painted in loose sweeping strokes in each colour.

Then we removed the masking tape and cut the paper up into separate sections, and then added more marks to each section using the tools that we had made earlier, using inks Neocolour crayons, and oil pastels. Producing some stunning results.

Diana.                                              Angela.                                                Avril

Lesley.                                                Harriet



Jackie.                                                                                                              Ian

Sally P                                                    Richard

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Sally T.                                                       Ian C.                                                 Ian J

Josie                                                     Jill 

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Carolyn has sent two completely different images this week. The first entitled From Black to White. Carolyn says ‘it looks quite attractive , but does it work’? I’m going to stick my neck oou here and say that for me it works the other way round, because my eye is drawn to the central focal point, ‘the black’
Next Two black and white drawings of Avril’s dogs looking extremely relaxed, not posing at all.

Frances has sent some recent sketches of the Palais de Luxumborg, Felixstowe, Walberswick and Southwold, and finally her mark making interpretation of an oyster shell, lovely!

And Hannah has sent two images, the first a drawing and then a beautiful almost translucent iPad image of a squid.

If any of the images that you see have been cut click on them and you should see the full image.
i apologise if I have wrongly attributed any of your work, it was more difficult then usual because I didn’t have the usual indicators of your particular painting styles.

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• Next week’s blogger will be Hannah, please send images to her.
• Sally P’s session next week is entitled ‘Celebrations’ and is timed to coincide with an exhibition at Thornham Village Hall, which is commemorating it’s 100th   birthday.
• So please bring any colours/ collage materials ideas that conjour up the idea of celebration to you.- Open to many interpretations.

​Sally