Texas Scratchboard 2011

1. Texas Scratchboard 2011

2. Hyperlinks • To use the hyperlinks copy and paste them into your browser.

3. Diane aka Boardlady • Use of Saral paper for transferring images. Washes off very easy. • Use Photoshop contrast to accentuate the black and white contrast of photo. • Uses Kinko’s to blow up images larger than standard printer size. Take flashdrive to them and have them print it out. In Texas only $2.00 to print, varies by region I’m sure. • Erasers, erasers, erasers. • Uses many types of erasers. Pick them up any place…especially office supplies. Bring them home try them out for yourself. • Uses them for skin in people instead of the line approach. • Link for buying Faber-Castell pen eraser stick. http://www.danielsmith.com/Item--i-438-030-009 • Don’t mess with Diane she has a black belt and lives in Texas!

4. Sally Maxwell • Marketing • You photo your story. You have an emotional connection and story with your own photos. Art will reflect that. • Target your market- right audience • Spends 50% of her time just marketing. • To make money need to charge more than the time spend only on producing the working. Estimates 4-5 times markup needed for your time spent on marketing, preparation, etc. • Consistency in framing. Uses a light pine frame coated with formica. Keeps works very light. Comes mitered…cost $3.89 per foot. • Series so people will want more than one picture. Working on meercat village.

5. Sally Maxwell Framing • Use small pins and cover with black masking tape. Hang with wire. • Google Larson Juhl for website of framing.

6. Sally Maxwell Markers • Demonstration of using Faber-Castell markers on white clayboard. Works well because markers are made from Indian Ink. Beautiful markers– large and smaller markers available. • Have flesh color too. Made a color chart for each marker. Color different from what is on the marker cap. • http://www.dickblick.com/products/faber-castell-pitt-big-brush-artist-pens/

7. Sally Maxwell Sealer • Uses a number of coats to seal work. • Product from dick blick • Lascaux Archival Varnish UV protection Semi-matt 2074. • http://www.dickblick.com/products/lascaux-uv-protect/

8. Cathy aka Crias • Monkey fur made with a underlayer of flexible sanding pad by 3M. (Bought at Lowe’s) Then scratch lines on top. • Http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Sandblaster_US/Home/ProductInformation/SandBlasterProducts • Demonstration of tiger eye. Best to watch the U tube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA65Kvql4cA

9. Rodman and Airbrush • Use about 70% water and 30% ink mix to start. Varies values of black ink. Closer makes darker lines. • Push trigger forward first to get rid of excess. • To splatter pinch air hose. • VIVA paper towels . • Fiber tool to subtract and add ink back on. • Don’t travel with black ink in your supplies makes quite a mess.

10. Diana Lee: Demo on skin • Draw the lines in one direction. • Not following contour of the face. • Holds scalpel farther up the handle and leaves pliable to get lighter strokes. • Second layer is a feather technique. Like cross-hatching but a a much lesser angle. • Third layer another feather layer. If do fourth layer start over on direction of line. Control light by feathering and lightness of scratch. • Go through at end to re-scratch small areas that still need to be blended.

11. Diana Lee Skin • When doing the eyebrows just above the eyebrow make direction of line match the direction of eyebrow to make the eyebrow look more natural i.e. not glued on. • Dirt devil keyboard vacuum (very small) used to get rid of clay remnants • Uses colored pencils, ink, and watercolor pencil to structure eye. The waxy film of the colored pencil will go away once it is sprayed.

12. Diana Lee White Board • Apply inks as thin coats (1:1 dilution with water) for layers. Keep the layers going in same direction don’t switch during the painting. • Adds a little blue to black ink so it looks better to her. • Speedball nibs are superior to the Ampersand ones. Can get them at Daniel Smith. • Make hard lines, soft lines, different colors. • Initial ink washes of 3 or 4 layers and then scratching.

13. Steff demo of the Brass Brush • http://www.micromark.com/Mini-Brush-with-Brass-Bristles,6556.html • Use for tail of horse. Similar to fiber glass brush without those pesky fibers. • Do have to apply quite a bit of pressure to get results. • Small fiberglass brush can also get from Micromark. Can get the tip to be finer by dragging brush along sandpaper (per Rodman) • http://www.micromark.com/Ultra-Micro-Fiberglass-Brush,7850.html

14. Allan Allan Allan • Uses Plexiglas for inks. • Tapes the Ampersand ink bottles together for easy of transport. • Use alcohol wipes from Walgreens to clear black. • Packs up 5x7 board in a e book reader case. (look for some on sale somewhere (ebay) because you don’t want to pay $35 for it. • Keeps board, picture, scalpel, extra scalpel all in case. Easy transport. • Uses sewing needle in holder as tool. If you separate the two people have taken these on the airplane with them to scratch.

15. Terri and Inks • When you are buying inks better to look at the pigment color not the color the manufacturer calls it this way you know if you are duplicating between manufacturers. • Uses Derwent InkTense pencils and Inktense blocks. Once these dissolve in water these become permanent. http://www.pencils.co.uk/product.aspx?mid=1338 • Different types of white- titanium white is more opaque and zinc white is transparent. • Good book that discusses pigments and many other things: • Artist Handbook by Mayer • Uses Windsor Newton watercolor iridescent medium but sparingly. • Golden acrylics but harder to scratch through. • Wow beautiful color chart check out video.

16. Angela (birdlover) and “The Board Meeting” • Used Esdee board although could use Ampersand of course. • Esdee board forces you not to be as detailed since if you scratch too much your going to go through the cardboard. • Cost is a bit more than Ampersand. • Looser style- overall impression of terns. Just basic black, white, and greyer areas. • Sky fully cleared with fiber glass brush. Then apply blue ink. Gives a different looking texture than Ampersand. • Ground partially cleared leaving some black behind. Tends to form black dots use to advantage to give it a ground texture. • Water lightly brushed in with fiberglass brush.

17. Elysse and “Zentangle” • Repeating patterns. Used matt board to practice but could be done on black or white clayboard. • Divide space in to as many sections as you want and do different repeating patterns in each. • Shade to obtain more depth. • Patterns at www.tanglepatterns.com but need to give authors credit in work. • Other tools had was a piercing tool and a 2 pronged tool that was good for scratching. Name brand was Pergamano. • http://www.ecstasycrafts.com/

18. Videos on U tube • These are notes written up by me (Angela Wranic) and reflect what I was able to take notes on and summarize. For complete viewing you can see the u Tube videos which were recorded in their entirety for each demonstration by Sheba. Thank you thank you Sheba. That was lots of work….filming and posting. • To bring up videos goggle: Scratchboard Workshop in San Antonio Texas u Tube.