Scratchboard Art
68Scratch Art
Scratchboard is what my mother and I always called it
.... but most just call it plainly Scratch Art. And no, it has nothing to do with the Tattoo Thang, though the artist who shoots ink under the skin of their customers are referred to as 'scratchers'
Way back, but not that long, when I came home from middle school one day, fresh from art class, that was always the last class of the day for me, I carried with me a finished piece I was quite proud of. I recall little from back then; the teacher's name was Solinburger, the best friend's name was Hickernell, the bully was named Heim, the girlfriend wanabe was Dena Fick, who let me kiss her a hundred times at the prom to spite her boyfriend,and that's about it, but what I do remember most was Art class and print class, and I recall this piece, with an 'A' on the back, and how I did it. Sadly to say It has gotten lost from my many moves and is most likely ashes or dust by now, but what sticks out in my memory the most from that particular day was the expression on my mothers face when I showed it to her.
To this day I don't know if she was so happy and excited for my grade, or the art work itself. She's still creating Scratch-board art and has over a thousand pieces to her credit. Maybe I know the answer to that question.
The way I did it in class was ....
a lot different than she does it now. I started off and colored my own white cardboard. She goes on line and orders it all ready colored and ready to go. In art class the teacher told me to use different color crayons and color small areas about the size of quarter covering the front of the white cardboard. Then after that was completed, we painted over top of that with black tempera paint and let it dry. It didn't take very long to dry. Then with a sharp instrument; we used large toothpicks or the tools we used when we worked with clay; something sharp but not that sharp, and scratched - where the art gets it's name - through the black area on the board so the colored portion underneath shows through, and becomes part of the final image.
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