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His work surrounds his home city of Dublin.

His photographs have pops of colour and are arranged to be pleasing to the eye.

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peppy colours :)

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uses simple lines in her work.

her work is minimalist and she uses watercolour, ink, paint . another work of hers to look at would be “The Egg”(1963).

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his work could be sensitive to young students

Francis is a video and sculptor from belgium, based in Mexico. the 5 minute video above is him in Iraq with soldiers preparing for war, as he colour matches his surroundings with paint on his palette .

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Mosul, Iraq, 2016; 5:01 min

Public domain videos can be downloaded and shared with others as long as the authorship is credited and there is a link back to the website of the author. These videos cannot be altered in any way or used for commercial purpose nor cannot be displayed or exhibited without the consent of the artist.

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Mosul, Iraq, 2016; 5:01 min Color Matching Mosul, Iraq, 2016; 5:01 min Public domain videos can be downloaded and shared with others as long as the authorship is credited and there is a link back to the website of the author. These videos cannot be altered in any way or used for commercial purpose nor cannot...

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Artist who deals with many different mediums. His charcoal sketches show space and how space affects a character/ object.

Charcoal drawings were from his portfolio and are unnamed.

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Drypoint etching. Untitled piece.

Shows contrast, shape

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Simple wire drawings - good for introducing line

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Good book for creating pigments and dyes

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Ghanian sculptor, works with small textures on a large scale.

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Rorschach, ink blots, interpretation and mystery

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Optical Illusion / pattern /movement work

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Charcoal and print artist

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Also does paintings but line drawings are good for line activity

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Experimental film artist - looks at moth wings.

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Mixed media interesting vintage celtic style video

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VIDEO – CELTIC FOLK SOUL – CELTIC ART STUDIO

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Ruby deals with themes of identity, landscape and growth through the medium of experimental photography through anthotypes . She uses plants as a metaphor for belonging, connection and healing. She uses pigments of beetroot,blackberry and rose which slowly change under sunlight. 

‘Bloodroot and foxglove’ by Ruby Wallis in the RHA- Archipelago exhibition 2025

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Katerina Gribkoff is a visual artist based in western Ireland. Her research aims to find alternative, liveable ways of making and creating in tandem with growing systems, and directly links her studio practice with a dye and pigment garden in the Burren. Her work includes foraging and growing to make dyes and inks, biodegradable soft sculptures, photography, and plant support systems. Her research moves through contemporary eco-critical themes, systems thinking (permaculture) and new materialist studies’

Photos from ‘What the plants know’ exhibition July 2024- by Katerina Gribkoff

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Mushroom and onion activity in education. Blending primary source drawing with artist inspiration.

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Cardboard shoe artist

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Good for line and complimentary colour study

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Textural blanket sculpture

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Charcoal , posititive negative , contrast

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Form study through tone and highlights

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Etching artist using recycled materials

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Collagraph printing plates can be made of any material - the word basically means collaged together - typically I use cardboard and carve into the surface with a craft knife - peeling away layers and scoring marks into the surface. You can add textures like masking tape or fabric/string to create areas of detail. The whole plate is varnished with a thin layer of shellac varnish (sometimes called button polish) to seal it allowing you to wipe ink all over the surface and into the grooves and textured areas that will hold more ink, as with all intaglio printing you buff the ink off the plate you and clear areas you want to remain white, the plate is then printed onto damp paper with a high-pressure etching press. I have found the more textures and sharp edges the plate has the higher quality paper you need to be able to mould around the plate and capture all the detail. I use Hahnemuhle 300gsm paper as it has a high cotton fibre content and is really forgiving with difficult cut out shapes.

Using found objects to create printing plates has taken my work in a new direction - the graphic shapes of the opened out packaging is fascinating in itself but works really well against the natural shapes and marks of the birds and trees. I wanted to make sure the birds looked like they are flying out of the frame, breaking out of the boxes and that meant using the shapes of the unfolded boxes to dictate where i could create movement in the image. I have also played with the idea of reconstructing the box once printed and it works wonderfully, transforming an everyday object into art.

While looking for interesting packaging to use I found the Terrys chocolate orange boxes which have holes cutting of the centre as part if the design , they lent themselves perfectly to becoming moons once i put birds inside them. The Pears soap box packaging had embosed logos on which inside ore the wrong way around - but of course with printmaking you want text to be the wrong way around as it will print correctly- and it worked brilliantly adding a ghostly font to the final print.

Collagraph plates can be quite durable but the plates made out of packaging are very delicate as the card is thin and my cutting made them even more vulnerable, I could only get a very small edition printed before the plate starts to degrade due to the high press of the press.

I am building up a body of work based around corvids - jackdaws and crows and ravens - Im using collagraph for its speed and immediacy when creating the plate - plus I love the rough and deep textures that i can achieve with the cardboard. Im planning on bringing all the work together in a physical exhibition in the future so for now I will just keep creating and adding to the pile.

Some artists working with collagraph that I like and that you might be interested in

karen wicks https://www.instagram.com/iacartroom

Marian haf https://www.instagram.com/marianhaf/

Sue brown https://www.instagram.com/sb.brown21/

Sarah Ross Thompson https://www.instagram.com/sarahrossthompson/

Suzi Mackenzie https://www.instagram.com/suzie.mackenzie.printmaker/ (she has written a great book on collaraphs - well worth a look if you would like to teach yourself)

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Collagraph printing plates can be made of any material - the word basically means collaged together - typically I use cardboard and carve into the surface with a craft knife - peeling away layers and scoring marks into the surface.

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Sculpture, making everyday objects big

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Sculptor - his 'Drawings' through spray paint and making stencils

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also good for videography

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also works on acetate

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bleaching on experimental film

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painter , optical movement

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Cardboard Cobbler VAC

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3Yr BA VAC 3D Construction Brief 2025-2026

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The Art Story: Visual Art Movements, Artists, Ideas, and Definitions

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The Art Story is the History of Visual Art that is optimized for the web: we clearly and graphically overview and analyze classical and modern artists, movements, and ideas.

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good for collage

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Illustrator with ink

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Texture and colour

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Composition, photography, humans, analog

Digital collage for self portrait

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Shutter speed capturing in moment. Crushing/ breaking down.

Photographer for Fendi designer

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Painter - shapes

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Ink Illustrator

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Illustrator for roald dahl books

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Courtroom live sketching

Mona Shafer Edwards | Illustration

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Illustrator Mona Edwards brings a fluid, elegant and evocative style to illustrations which range from fashion, to travel, to courtroom drama (Michael Jackson, Lindsay Lohan…)

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Simple collagraph artist

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His energetic drawings, often created with a reed pen

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merican artist April Coppini, known for her dynamic prints and drawings, uses fluid and gestural marks in her animal drawings. They seem to capture a moment in time. The artworks below are created with charcoal on paper, and she draws with an eraser as much as the charcoal.

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What is mark making? Does it just mean dots, scribbles, and brushstrokes? What do expressive qualities add to the look and feel of an artwork?

What is mark making? Why use gestural qualities?

Mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns, and textures we create in an artwork. It can be loose and gestural or controlled and neat. It can apply to any material used on any surface: paint on canvas, ink or pencil on paper, a scratched mark on plaster, a digital paint tool on a screen, a tattooed mark on skin...even a sound can be a form of mark making. Artists use gesture to express their feeling and emotions in response to something seen or something felt - or gestural qualities can be used to create a purely abstract composition.

Capturing life

The impressionists used mark making - in the form of separate brush marks or dabs of paint - to add life, movement and light to their paintings of the things they saw around them. Later artists working in an expressionist style such as Willem de Kooning also created representational artworks using mark making. In his Untitled drawing of 1966-7 de Kooning uses rough charcoal lines, marks and smudges to suggest the movement of the people he draws.

Expressing emotions

Artists often use mark making and gestural qualities to express their feelings or emotions about something they have seen or experienced. Patrick Heron's Azalea Garden wasinspired by the effervescence of flowers 'erupting' in his garden. The vicious clawed and battered marks used by Jean Fautrier in creating his sculpture Large Tragic Head seem to directly communicate the horror and fear he experienced during the Second World War. Cy Twombly developed gestural mark making into a form of personal handwriting. In his series of paintings based on the seasons, he uses this 'handwriting' of marks to express what the different seasons mean to him.

Abstract and intuitive

Artists also use expressive mark making to create purely abstract artworks which do not necessarily refer to anything in the real world but are intuitive or respond to a defined set of rules.

Action painters such as Jackson Pollock (who dripped and splashed paint onto his canvases) and Niki de Saint Phalle, who in her shooting pictures found a novel way of mark making, by firing a gun through bags of paint which then exploded onto a canvas creating explosive marks, splashes and drips. An important influence on this kind of improvised mark making was the surrealist doctrine of automatism - which meant accessing ideas and imagery from the subconscious or unconscious mind.

Gerhard Richter experiments with lots of different ways of applying paint in his paintings. One technique he has adopted is using a homemade squeegee to smear and scrape paint across the surface of his paintings. The resulting marks look almost digital in their effect.

Mark making doesn't always have to be gestural and 'uncontrolled'. Eva Hesse created beautiful serene drawings such as 1967 by systematically filling in the squares of graph paper with tiny marks. Bernard Cohen's use of mark making in work such as In That Moment 1965 is similarly methodical. A single unbroken line winds its way systematically over the canvas, this way and that, crossing and re-crossing itself, only stopping when the whole surface is filled.

Well known for her repeated dot patterns, Yayoi Kusama is another artist who systematically mark-makes. She creates paintings, sculptures and installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessive vision of endless dots. For her interactive Obliteration Room an entirely monochrome living room is 'obliterated' with multi-coloured stickers, transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour, with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface.

Making your mark: Graffiti and graffiti inspired art

By tagging or making signature marks or images on surfaces in outdoor public spaces graffiti artists are also mark making.

New York graffiti artist Keith Haring applied his characteristic symbols and decorations to the human body as seen in this photograph of singer, actress and model Grace Jones, taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.

The expressive qualities of graffiti has inspired many artists. Jean Dubuffet was interested in the marks and images he saw in graffiti scratched onto walls. In paintings such as Large Black Landscape and The Busy Life, graffiti-like figures, buildings and shapes are scratched into surfaces of thick paint. Mark Wallinger uses graffiti-like text in his mixed media work Where There's Muck, a comment on class in British society and the urban unrest of the 1980s when the work was made.

Mark Bradford compares his process of making paintings using materials he finds in his local urban environment to 'those tagged up, repainted, tagged up, sanded, and repainted walls you pass everyday in the street'. In paintings such as May Heaven Preserve You From Dangers and Assassins he uses layers of ripped advertising posters to create richly textured surfaces of marks which to him are like 'reading the streets through signs'.

Digital marks and making your mark using sound

Digital artists often create shapes or patterns that are produced automatically by programmed computer software. Artist Harold Cohen was an early pioneer of computer art, and the abstract shapes of Untitled Computer Drawing 1982 were created automatically by using such a programme. More recently artists have used data visualisation programmes to create digital images made up of marks and shapes that are generated automatically from a range of data. For The Dumpster 2006 Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg, plotted the romantic lives of teenagers, through a dynamic visualisation that draws its data from live blog entries. Picture editing tools can also be used to create digital images or change existing ones into a series of marks.

Some sound art can also be considered a type of mark making. Artist's have been experimenting with sound art since the early twentieth century when dada and surrealist artists used sound as an art form. Marcel Duchamp's composition Erratum Musical featured three voices singing notes pulled from a hat. Jem Finer creates images from noise and static produced by radio waves and television signals. Finer has taken the idea of making your mark using sound to a new level with his sound piece Longplayer, a computer generated sound piece designed to play for 1000 years.

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What is mark making? Does it just mean dots, scribbles, and brushstrokes? What do expressive qualities add to the look and feel of an artwork? What is mark making? Why use gestural qualities? Mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns, and textures we create in an artwork.

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Inventor of the collagraph - 'Collagraph #1'(1956)

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Analysing embroidery - Todays world- Lesson 3  (1)

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1st year collagraph support study artists

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C.Z. and Max on the Beach, Truro, Massachusetts

1976