Self generating drawings:

Last week’s session looking at Cesara Pietroiusti’s “untitled Drawing no. 039″

Ideas of (de)generation, corruption in repetition

accumulation and erasure

More Recipes for Drawing

In tomorrow’s session I am planning to go monochrome

Walking a line: exploring Paul Klee’s taking a line for a walk

Drawing Recipe no. 3

Taking a line for a walk
monochrome

• fat marker
• biro
• A4 paper

start at top right corner
touch the fat marker down onto the paper
draw a line from right to left until you reach the other side of the paper
hold the marker here, still touching the paper
close your eyes
draw a line from left to right, parallel to the line you have just drawn,
keep going till you reach the edge of the paper
open your eyes
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**draw a line from right to left parallel to the line above it
keep going till you reach the other side
hold the marker here, still touching the edge of the paper
close your eyes
draw a line parallel to the line above
keep going till you reach the other side
hold the marker on the edge of the page
open your eyes

repeat from ** until you reach the bottom of the page.

I used a fat black marker, you would get very different results using charcoal, can you predict how?

drawing and writing  – left to right
back and forth –  forward and reverse
(remember drawing the circles – starting by  radiating in/radiating out or changing how the ripples “grow”)
seeing and believing – eyes open eyes closed
parallel lines
how ‘full’ is your paper? Is there more black or more white on it?
look at each other’s work, are there different results? – describe
Choose a different medium  – charcoal/biro
Make another drawing on top using a different medium (layering)
Make another drawing on top orient the paper the other way (weaving)
Try on different sizes of paper – hand – wrist – arm – body