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Tools and materials
• Essdee Scraper Board,
or other clayboard or
scratchboard
• Sume-i ink or India ink
• Fine-tip ballpointpen
or stylus
• Water media brushes,
broad and fi ne-point
• Scratch tools: Either a
set you can buy from
an art store, or use a
straight pin, a nail,
your X-acto knife,
or any scraping tool
• Graphite paper
(optional, shown
on opposite page)
Scratchboard is one of my favorite materials. There’s something
about that scratched line that really says “human touch.” To me
it harkens back to our ancestors, to those extraordinary stylized
images scraped onto the walls of caves and canyon rocks, images
that inspire my imagin