Expressive mark-making

Art and design

How artists make marks

Mark-making with ink and water

Textured marks with charcoal

Mark-making and patterns

Building drawing machines

In this unit puils will investigate, explore and use a range of materials and  techniques to create drawings. They will make art expressively and spontaneously, exploring texture and pattern with a range of media before before creating drawing machines.

Mark-making: using drawing tools and techniques

True or false? Mark-making can show emotions or tell a story.

Which word best describes the action used to make these marks?

Which marks best fit the description ‘angry’?

the feelings we have inside such as happy, excited, angry or hungry

True or false? Emotions can’t be shown through mark-making.

Which of the following tools can be used to draw with?

Materials used to create artwork are called...

Starter Quiz

Match the keyword to its description: