August 11, 2017. Many artists will say that all drawing and painting involves some form of mark making. A general viewpoint is that as soon as your brush (or whatever tool you use) touches your canvas or paper, you are making a mark! Marks can be lines, scribbles, scratches, smudges, dots, dashes, patterns, textures.

Mark making is a term used for the creation of different patterns, lines, textures and shapes. This may be on a piece of paper, on the floor, outside in the garden or on an object or surface.

How Are Marks Used in Painting? Marks are not just used to form the pictures that artists create, they are also used to add expression to the work. Some marks may express movement while others express stability and strength. Artists can use slashes as marks to express anger or curves as marks to express calm or peace.

Mark-making is the broad term used to include all marks that are made visible as a manifestation of applied or gestural energy. It is the gestural language of drawing, and marks are the component parts within it.

Artists often use mark making and gestural qualities to express their feelings or emotions about something they have seen or experienced.

• There are many different ways you can create value using different mark making techniques.
• You will need 7 sheets of paper.
• Stippling – Creating an image using small dots.
• Hatching- Creating an image using parallel lines.
• Cross hatching- creating an image using different sets of parallel lines.

Art raises our awareness of important issues or concerns. Artists express messages through various medium and forms. CP. 9.2 Students investigate and use choreographic processes( e.g. individual and collaborative choreography.

Raising awareness about something that wasn’t known before can be a useful tactic when it’s part of a larger effort to drive social change. But to truly drive change, we have to consider the science that shows there is a more strategic, effective, and focused way to drive social change.

Environmental art can be used by government as an engaging medium to encourage pro-environmental behaviour and a sense of place at a grassroots level. By stimulating discussion and reflection, environmental art offers an imaginative format to promote environmental engagement.

Traditional categories within the arts include literature (including poetry, drama, story, and so on), the visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.), the graphic arts (painting, drawing, design, and other forms expressed on flat surfaces), the plastic arts (sculpture, modeling), the decorative arts (enamelwork.