Vincent van Gogh, The Flower Garden (1888)
I chose this drawing as an example because I liked the garden topic and admired the variety of textures for the plants that van Gogh had created.
Remarkably, the walls of the house are the lightest area of the drawing, without any marks. Every other space on the paper is covered with some pattern to depict flowers, trees, ground, bushes, fence or part of a building.
There is a strong repetitive element in each texture, with basic shapes used many times, but by varying tone, size, direction there is always happening something on the surface, no monotony.
I always liked van Goghs paintings and have only recently come into contact with some of his drawings. I am very impressed by his inventiveness and the dynamic and beautiful drawings he has made.
I did this research already during the exercises and I think that it has influenced how I approached the search for variation in my mark-making experiments, although I did not particularly dwell on this particular way of mark-making, with its many tiny structures.