For this exercise I have been asked to collect and use different drawing materials than I am used to using and show examples of mark making using my chosen items.

The items I chose for this exercise are:

• Coffee (using a fork as the tool and the coffee water as an ink)
• A die (dice) as a tool with ink
• Human Hair with ink
• Rolled up piece of paper as a tool with acrylic paint
• Burnt matches (tool and ink!)

My test marking pages:

Coffee (using a fork as the tool and the coffee water as an ink):

A die (dice) as a tool with ink:

Human Hair with ink:

Rolled up piece of paper as a tool with acrylic paint:

Burnt matches (tool and ink!):

Full Page Image:

The material I identified as having potential: COFFEE!

A small illustration I created using my chosen material: my oriental lilies

Reflection:

What quality of mark did the materials produce?

Overall most of the materials I experimented with created interesting and relatively high quality marks. The only two I wouldn’t use again would be the die and the burnt matches, the outcomes weren’t great and it felt like a massive fail when I started to use the materials on the paper.

What other materials could they be combined with and how would this affect their aesthetic qualities?

I have already combined the materials in one of my experiments (the rolled up paper) I used black and red acrylic paint and I thought that this created an interesting contrast of colours. If I was to combine another material into one of my other experiments it would be the coffee one. I could perhaps see what other liquids I could get from the kitchen to create different colours within the piece. I would maybe use ketchup, marmite, chocolate milk, spinach water etc.