3 Exercises to Explore Mark Making & Sound

As part of DrawAble, Paula Briggs from AccessArt has created 3 warm-up exercises for schools to use to help enable learners to develop their mark making skills. 

Mark making underpins all drawing, and these warm-ups can be used as standalone activities or as precursors to other drawing projects. 

Mark Making and Sound: Part One explores how we can use sound as a stimulus to develop the kinds of marks we can make.

Part Two explores how we might capture the spirit of a piece of music through abstract mark making, and in Part Three we use the rhythm and personality of a piece of music to give our observational drawings a sense of flow and playfulness.