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I have given a lot of thought, perhaps too much, to what my first blog should say. In the middle of the night I made a mental list of what intrigues me most about art: mark making, line, spirituality in art, painting intuitively, and symbols in art.

So today I will tell you how I use mark making in my art. All I need is a #2 pencil and paper large enough for me to get a lot of movement. Sometimes I use newsprint and sometimes I use good paper. I place my pencil or whatever marking tool I want to use on the surface of a piece of large paper and begin to draw, scribble, mark…….filling up several sheets of paper. My right brain takes over and soon I am making MY marks and something wonderful may happen. I soon start to think “painting” and then I move to watercolor paper, canvas, or illustration board and “draw”  some more. Soon I am ready to start painting. Isn’t it amazing that we all have our own individual marks and aren’t our paintings better when we let our creative juices flow?

Think about it…we have our own signatures, our own brush strokes, our own marks….no one can duplicate our individual marks.

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