Month of Mark Making Finished!

Month of Mark Making Finished!

I finished Lisa Congden’s Creative Bug class on mark making. All in all, I’d give the “class” a D. The idea was to fill 9” x 6” Bristol papers with different marks and sometimes compositions with marks each day—but then it led absolutely nowhere (I’m also annoyed that they held a live Q&A for her on the last day but didn’t allow everyone to join in or record it). Anyway, I ended up with a stack of papers that are too heavy to use for collage, so I put them on a ring for reference. I probably did expand ideas about kinds of marks I COULD use in my work—but all in all this class could have been so much better. Oh well!

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