22 Aug 2009

Course work: Continued work on Assignment 1, Section 1, “Making Marks”, pp 6-7. Half a page in the sketchbook was filled with marks made by holding the pencil in different grips. A full page was devoted to making various marks with charcoal, ranging from attempts at hatching (not very successful) to large, bold marks made with the side of a stick. Another page of twelve 5 x 5 cm squares was filled with a variety of marks made with purchased and improvised instruments ranging from a 0.05 mm pen through a pen I made from a wild turkey feather to a finger.

Observations: The difference in marks made with different grips was interesting: precision is greatest with the normal “pencil” grip, and least with the
“underhand” grip: freedom of marking seems greatest with the “overhand” grip. Trying to produce interesting marks with a diversity of devices was a challenge, which I only partially met.

Personal sketchbook work: a series of drawings of a very old and rusty hand-forged nail, done with four different drawing instruments, in my (approximately) A4 sketchbook.


Total time: apx. 1 ½ hrs