Developing Your Visual Vocabulary: A Daily Practice in Mark Making

How you make marks on the page is completely unique to you and is an essential part of what makes up your visual vocabulary. Your visual vocabulary includes the amount of pressure you put on your pencil, your color palette, and the shapes and elements you use over and over that altogether create your artistic style. Join artist, illustrator, author, and longtime Creativebug instructor Lisa Congdon for this month-long mark making daily practice. You’ll explore the basics of mark making, build your own repertoire of marks, and learn how to use those marks to create drawings and collages in different media like colored pencil, watercolor, and collage. Lisa will guide you through drawing everything from leaves to birds to landscapes, as well as one large final project where you can combine and play with everything you learned in class as you continue to refine your drawing toolkit. Find Day 31’s recorded live conversation with Lisa HERE. Learn how to:

• Draw basic marks like lines, x's, loops, and dots
• Make marks with various media like colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic ink, and collage
• Use your repertoire of marks to make drawings of things you see around you like botanicals, animals, and landscapes
• Let go of perfection and discover your own unique artist's hand