mark making
Leaving visible strokes
Mark making is the process of creating visible traces on a surface—lines, dots, scratches, strokes.
The term appears most often in art education and criticism, where it encompasses everything from a child's first crayon scribbles to a painter's deliberate brushwork.
Each artist develops characteristic mark making: Her mark making is loose and gestural.
The concept emphasizes that even the simplest marks carry expressive potential.
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
- gestureCommunicative body movement
- traceMinute remnant or pursue
- scratchSuperficial wound or mark
- scribbleWrite without care
line · brush · dry brush · wet on wet · ink · charcoal · smudge · texture · surface · pressure · drag · sweep · hatching · cross hatching · stippling · expressive · action painting · drawing
- early educationpreschool, nursery, nursery schools, nursery class, kindergarten
- ink drawingink drawing, pen and ink, inking, linework, line work
- drawingpencil drawing, drawing, sketch, sketches, pencil sketch
- early childhoodchild development, infancy, early years, toddler years, childhood
- art elementsline, shape, color, value, space
- child languagebabbling, first words, cooing, language development, speech development
mark makingerasure
Act of wiping away
erasing · effacement · obliteration · rubbing out · deletion
mark makingblankness
State of being empty
leaving no trace · emptiness · clean slate · tabula rasa · void
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