The 5th graders created phenomenal etchings of
animals in scratchboard- a thick board coated with a layer of
black ink that the students scratch into.They applied the grid technique to
create proportionally correct contour drawings of photographs. Next, they applied impressive drawing and etching skills when using stippling,
hatching and crosshatching to render light and dark value to create forms and
texture in their drawings. The scratchboard challenged them to think about the
drawing approach in reverse, as they removed black ink to reveal light versus
the traditional approach of adding dark value to light paper
