GLENVIEW – Glenview Art League hosts a scratchboard demonstration on Tuesday March 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Park Center room 204 by local artist Les Scott. The demo is free and open to the public. ADA accessible. Membership info available/refreshments/easy parking in front of Park Center. More info: glenviewartleague.org.
Les Scott
Artist Statement: les.scratchart@yahoo.com
I worked with all mediums including oil, acrylic, color pencil, pen and ink and occasionally dabbled with computer based art. 12 years ago I drew an interest in scratchboard from looking at illustrations from a children’s book. Scratchboard is a hard Masonite clay-coated board sprayed over with black India ink. The subject is drawn on the surface from tracing paper smeared with chalk by pencil. Then its scratched by a x-acto knife which an image of white appears. The art is a result of white art on a black surface.
Scratchboard has an ancestry that goes back hundreds of years of scratching art first on animal bones and then on rocks and boulders. The medium is somewhat related to etchings and woodcuts. It’s not as popular as watercolor or acrylics but its making a good comeback.
Submitted by Glenview Art League