Independence

Expressive Mark-Making

I find that my students have a really hard time working intuitively and creating art that is solely about the beauty of the marks they make. They tend to want to create something that is realistic, and this is how they also place value on work they view. I set out to create a lesson that pushed students to be experimental with media and to learn to see the true beauty in mark-making.

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