
124 playing with color
experiment 32: scratchboard drawings
Challenge: Explore serendipity and color contrast
Materials: oil pastels; cardboard; tools for scratching
The original scratchboard technique involved scratching the surface
of a board coated with a base layer of white clay, covered by a layer of
black ink. As the ink is scratched away, a bright white line is revealed.
Images are built up by removing the surface. In our experiment, the
scratching technique is the same, but we replace clay with oil pastels to
achieve brilliant color effects.
When I was a child, I made scratchboard drawings using crayons, a
technique I learned in school. ...