This is an exercise from the sketchbook class I’m finishing up. You focus on a page that you like and identify 5 marks and colors. Then you scale those up and repeat them on separate papers.
I chose turquoise wash, sepia smudges, turquoise scratches, white lines and light brown transparent tissue paper collage.
It didn’t occur to me that serious smudges look like poop, literally, so that made some of the scaled up pages much less pleasing.
I enjoyed the exercise but don’t really know yet how to use it, or to integrate it with more representational work. I guess it’s okay for it too be abstract, or I could do it again using a reference image.
These are the three I like the most – the colors, textures, layers, and transparencies. I worked into them more with gesso and other colors.
