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    Wall of Stripes

    Nov 15, 2018 3 minutes
    By Patrick Hedges

    TECHNIQUES

    Scratchboard is an extremely versatile and forgiving medium. When people tell you that you need to get each scratch in exactly the right place first time or your board is ruined, don’t believe them. If you are painting in oils and make a mistake, you simply paint over it. The same holds true for scratchboard where you can re-ink over mistakes. The one important thing to remember is that the goal is to scratch the ink off the clay but not scratch through the clay. Use

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