scratchboard art
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Scratchboard Art. Another Project Involving Sharp Pointy Things. What is it?. A white or reflective board is covered in black acrylic paint or black gesso The artist then scratches away the black (using an exacto knife) to reveal an image Like Printmaking - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Another Project Involving Sharp Pointy Things
Scratchboard Art
A white or reflective board is covered in black acrylic paint or black gesso
The artist then scratches away the black (using an exacto knife) to reveal an imageLike PrintmakingCreates really beautiful lifelike textures
What is it?
Select an animalCreate a black and white image on the
scratchboard provided to youShow the animals textureMust show Value
Highlight, Halftone, Core, Shadow, reflected light
What is the Project?
A COMMON MISTAKEDon’t draw
everything with a white outline, like on a chalkboard.
People do this...
when what they really want is this...
Black lines are created by scratching on either side of them.
Pencil drawing
Scratchboard, using same technique as pencil and paper. This ends up looking like a negative which is incorrect.
You must scratch away areas of LIGHT and leave DARK areas!
