Today I am going to hopefully inspire you to look for implements around the house that you can use for mark making. My eyes are now finely tuned to look for shapes in everyday items and I come across new mark making implements all the time.

The kitchen is a good source of supplies for me. How about a spatula?

Who would have thought!

Or a plastic pizza slicer…….. not sure how good it is for slicing pizza.

But it glides across my artwork beautifully to create erratic lines.

And a basting brush, which I actually use a lot in the kitchen, (not the same one I use for painting I hasten to add)

Makes some good random marks.

Then we have paint scrapers.

I use these a lot to add painted lines.

Now let’s go to the hairdressers. These combs were cheap and cheerful

I drag them a little across the page

And …… not sure what you call this but it is the plastic brush that you use to pull hair conditioner through your hair.

I like this one because I can creat circular dots like this.

Or if I twist it as I print it makes this nice twisted dots design.

Then finally…… and I use these a lot!

Doggie poo bags!

But not the bags but the inner roll that the bags are rolled on to. (already used, hence the paint)

I always save these because they are useful for printing circles.

I should point out that for all my mark making I first spread my paint with a brayer on to a piece of heavy duty glass that I keep on my art worktop. (the glass was an idea that I got from Flora Bowley). Then I press my mark making tools into the paint spread to gather up paint.

Well that is al for today. Although I suspect I could come up with endless more ideas if I started rummaging in my drawers. What Ideas can you come up with for implements that will make interesting marks? Go and have a search around the house and see what you can find.

I will be blogging again next week with some more mark making ideas and I think you are gonna love them. So do remember to stop by again next week or in case you forget you might like to subscribe to my blog posts on the top right of the Home page.