Experimental mark making

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John and I had a fun day in the studio recently. We both wanted to do a bit of experimental mark-making, to explore new ideas. John is looking for inspiration for his printmaking and I thought it would be interesting to play with marks and compositions which could be the starting points of new drawings or which might possible translate into textiles. We gathered lots of tools and then made a few new ones, looking for anything which would make an unusual mark if dipped in paint: We decided to…

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Mark making. mixed media.

Being in the same space with Kathy Kelley’s art is like a visit to the elephant house: one marvels at the enormity, the textures, and the smell. Her work is excessive. In the five years she has been working as a sculptor, she has produced a shocking bulk of enormous pieces. Too big to lift, too dirty to handle, too ephemeral to keep, the exterior yard of her studio in Houston is fringed with hulking mounds of slowly degenerating rubber. What’s impressive about Kelley’s work is her…

A week of drawing patterns & making marks in ink, Throwing in a twist + hypothesis wrapped in an experiment: how does water alter|morph patterns? So I set about drawing repeating patterns knowing in advance that I would alter them — I like seeing how art materials react in different sit