Scratchboard

***Have a pencil and paper ready for vocabulary notes***

A surface made up of white clay and then coated with black India ink. You carve into it with a sharp tool to reveal the white clay underneath.

What is scratchboard?

Scratchboard Techniques

Hatching and Cross Hatching

Creating shading by using parallel lines.

Hatching

Layering parallel lines on top of each other in order to create shading.

Cross-Hatching

Texture

Contour lines

Lines that surround and define the edges of an object, giving it shape and volume.

Contour Lines

Reversing the lights and darks of an image. The darks appear light (white), the lights appear dark (or black).

Negative

Artists who use These Techniques

Diana Lee

Steve Carroll

Virgil Finlay

R. Crumb

The distinguishing character or personality of an individual

Identity

Overlay

Something that is laid over or covers another surface. Placed on top of another image to be incorporated into it.

Transfer part of or your entire face to the scratchboard using graphite tracing/transfer. (you will learn how to do this in class.

Scratch board Self Portrait Assignment

Add text about yourself. Text can include: answers from your identity think sheet. Names, dates, places, interests, lyrics, quotes, etc. AS LONG AS THEY ARE SCHOOL APPROPRIATE.

Scratchboard Self Portrait

Don’t slop the image and text on the scratchboard. Make an interesting composition.

(think how you can place the text with your image to make it interesting. )

Scratchboard Self Portrait