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Exercise Brief<\/summary>\n
Aim\nThis experiment with a fluid line drawing will give you a chance to explore process and materiality, working quickly and intuitively. \n\nMethod\nTake 20 or more sheets of paper all of the same size, A4 or similar. If possible, pin all 20 pieces of paper up on the wall or lay them out on the floor (to avoid dripping) so you can reach them all.\n\nMake up a pot of liquid paint. You can use tube watercolour, acrylic paint or ink extended with water and you can select any colour. Choose a pencil or pastel to provide a \u2018counterpoint\u2019.\n\nChoose a time when you have the mental space to be more reflective. You might be particularly relaxed or, conversely, your mind might be spinning in slip gear. Choose a time when you have something, or a set of things, you would like to think about.\n\nMake a drawing on each piece of paper in rapid succession, even continuing a line between sheets, if useful. Allow your hand to respond quickly to your passing thoughts; draw whatever comes easiest, even if it feels as if you are using symbols or pictographs.\n\nCome to the drawings fresh after a day or two. Sit with them and reflect on them. Make brief notes in your learning log.\n\nUse your counterpoint dry media, if you feel it is appropriate, to respond to your initial drawings.\n\nReflection\nDid you find that the pace of your fluid line stayed the same, or did you change it? How far did the liquid pool, drip or splatter? Did the inkiness of the paint pull you to write? What, if any, were the impulses that directed you to use your counterpoint medium? Make notes on these points, and any others that strike you, in your learning log.<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
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I experimented with fluid line drawings to explore process and materiality, working quickly and intuitively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was a useful approach to encourage me to just \u201cdo\u201d first and think later. This doesn\u2019t come easy. I\u2019m a thinker. I look and I wonder. I read and I wonder. I get lost in my own thoughts, often. Fast brain, they call it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nevertheless I tried to make without thinking at first and just let my brush wander on the paper. I notice things as I do so. I find the A4 size constraining now. I like to work on A2 or A1. I enjoy the lines but so much so I overdo it. It gets too busy but if I stop early I feel the fun is over too soon. I\u2019m quite fast, too fast perhaps, but if I slow down I lose my lines, I like them flowing and energetic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I \u201ccompleted\u201d about twenty drawings through this process. Sometimes there was splatter, sometimes the lines were fluid, sometimes they were ragged. I used different media: acrylic and water, ink.  I also enjoyed using charcoal over the pink neon ink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n