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The New Scratchboard: Materials and Techniques for Today’s Artist
£22.60
This volume begins with a look at the history of scratch art from petroglyphs, sgraffito and scrimshaw to the state of the medium today, with an emphasis on how surfaces, tools and techniques have enlarged the artistic vocabulary of artists working with scratchboard. The main focus of the book is an in-depth, step-by-step description of the three basic scratchboard techniques: the traditional scratching onto an ink-blacked surface; India ink on a white clay surface; and acrylics on a white clay surface. A final section presents a wide variety of other media that can be used on a clay surface, including airbrush, gouache, watercolour, casein, coloured pencil, tempers, coloured inks, lithography inks, encautic, oils, and printing techniques such as monotypes, offset lithography, serigraphs, and those that are computer generated.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S. (1 Jan. 2001) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 144 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0823046583 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0823046584 |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.94 cm |
by H. N. Mellersh
What I like is that this book opens up new ideas for scraper board, as it is called in England. My trouble is that you can’t buy the correct material (called Claybord) in the UK, does anyone know a way?
UK scraper board is not usable with water based paints and so cannot be used for many of the things suggested in this book.
The lithography chapter at the end is clear concise and was new to me. Very exciting!
Jeanie