So we were asked to bring 2 mark making tools each for the first mark making lesson last week, and I decided on a comb and a straw. However, I realized that we could use many of our daily used items/almost anything lying around as mark making tools as well :-) The following pictures are here to document what I had done on the first lesson!

& These were all done with Chinese calligraphy ink & black paint!

Using the teeth of the comb (Startled)

Using the comb just as a ‘brush’

Splattering of ink using the comb

Blowing of ink through a straw (Startled – but to be sharper)

(Annoyed)

Just using the straw as a ‘brush’ (Panic)

Using the bendable part of the straw (Panic)

Cutting up the straw into 5 parts (as if a fan)

Use of fingers (Hysteria)

Use of palette knife

Left: Using a palette knife
Right: Finger prints (Infatuation)

Linoprints

Use of crushed tissue paper (Infatuation)

Use of roller

Making use of a strand of hair… hahahhaa
(Longing – but can have less lines)

Tried Symmetry Print but did not work out as I’d like it to :-( So decided to mess it up (smudged it) a little bit after that!

Ended the lesson with that and feeling excited to try out more tools