Mark Making Art Book Look Through

After making my small folded book (which I did a look through of here), I wanted to experiment more with mark making. I followed the initial steps of preparing pages for a sketchbook from Sandra Meech’s book Connecting Design to Stitch.

I painted paper in acrylic washes, printed out photographs and painted over them with acrylic washes, and made some initial marks on paper and then painted over them with acrylic washes. I then used these pages to make my marks on. I used a variety of media, including acrylic paint, watercolour, ink, oil and chalk pastels, charcoal, biro and fine liner among others. I then cut each A4 sheet in half and folded and bound them together to create an A6 size book.

Below is a selection of pages from my book.

I'll try and post some of the pages that I didn't put in this post on my Instagram, so follow me there if you haven't already.