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How to Scratchboard Animals Course

Have you tried your hand at Scratchboard drawing yet?

Scratchboard is an etching technique where you scratch out the image from a board which has a black India Ink coating.

The technique may seem hard when you first look at the immaculate detail that is achieved with scratchboarding, but it is actually a fun and rewarding art form.

If you enjoy creating artworks that look like you can see every last detail and hair, then scratchboard drawing is just what you have been looking for.

It is no more difficult that pencil drawing or pen and ink drawing, but the results you achieve have a lot of impact.

This course is perfect for artists who have a little drawing experience, but have never used scratchboard before. If you are comfortable shading a ball in pencil, then you will be able to scratchboard.

Join us now for only $19 and start amazing everybody with this amazing art form!

This Week’s Featured Classes

$5

How to Draw The Hiker in Pastel

Hiking is one of the best ways to enjoy the countryside. One has plenty of time to walk as slowly as you like to take in the smells and the atmosphere and, most of all, to look, see, observe and study what is around you. We need, at times, to take it slowly. Too much hustle and bustle now-a-days!

In the class you will learn how to:

1 How to simplify the background
2 How to leave out the unnecessary
3 How to add your own colors
4 How to even simplify the detailed areas of the hiker

$5

How to Paint Pop Art Portrait

In this acrylic painting lesson we will paint a pop art portrait.

During the class you will learn how to take a standard photo and use it as reference as you change it into a pop art artwork. You will then learn what to leave and what to change in order to get the comic book effect.

As we progress you will see how interesting objects and items can be used to create fun effects in the artwork.

$5

Paint a Cottage in the Valley in Watercolor

Quite often, without realizing it until much later, that you have recorded a scene for posterity. This is one such occasion. This lovely cottage has since made way for a luxury Lodge and Game Reserve. The hill is Botlierskop and the Reserve is named after it. Cape Province in South Africa.

In this lesson you will learn:

1 how to paint the soft sky
2 howto paint the distant hill
3 how to render the house colors
4 how to simplify the foreground