3.01.2013

5th Grade Animal Etchings



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










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