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Scratchboard--help! Brian Pinkney--

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From: Susan Holland (Susan_Holland_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 17:51:42 PDT

 I read on the list last week about Brian Pinkney and realized I had a book
illustrated by him on my shelf- and a box of scratchboard in my supply cabinet.
 I'm trying to put together a lesson where 7th graders do some illustrating
using this stuff and I just tried scratching the scratch board--how do you get
good results?
What kind of tool works? I tried a pin, a paper clip, the point of scissors,
but I am not able to get a smooth flowing line. The black stuff seems to just
flake and the tools stumble through. Is there something I need to do to the
scratchboard paper? I want to I show my kiddos Brian Pinkney illustrations,
but I can't demonstrate how to get smooth fast lines like they'll see in his
work

Susan Holland
Visual Art Studies
University of Texas at Austin
susan_holland@teachnet.edb.utexas.edu 

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