Summary: Moving the body with a design mark builds a more expressive line for a more successful piece. Move with mark making with tips from an artist in this free design video.
Gretchen Kibbe is an artist and part-time faculty member at Appalachian State University. She worked as a scenic artist on the Spike Lee movie School Daze.read more
"So, maybe I'm going to put my whole body behind it. And just go like that. Like, as if I'm a bull dozer or a snow plow. Up in, up in New England, it's a snow plow. What is a snow plow? And the idea is, o.k. Now I'm going to turn the, turn the paper around. I've got a lot of white down here and some dark up here. But I got the strong line here. So, now I'm going to, I'm going to work again. And now I feel like, I don't know. I'm late for an appointment. I've forgotten fifty thousand things. I couldn't find my keys this morning. You know, the car is almost out of gas. I don't have any more money, this week. And that's, that kind of energy. You know, I'm going to turn it around, again. And this time I'm going to add, I'm going to change medium. So, I mean there's no reason, not to. You know. And I'm going to well, I'm tip toeing through the tulips. You know, I've got over, Ive got over my morning rage there. My morning road rage. And I'm going to tip toe through, I'm like a cat. Maybe, I'm a cat on the ice, you know. So, we're going to, you know lift. And I'm getting real funky marks, you know. I couldn't have made that mark, if I'd planned it. So, I think you're getting the idea. This is sort of a, let yourself go and really get some energy moving. And a lot of times, I start art classes with this. To really, truly get your energy moving and then focus on mark making."