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What is scratchboard?

What is scratchboard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (art) A technique in which drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white china clay that is coated with black India ink.
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The motivation to use a royal face card as a partial subject for scratchboard drawing came from the desire to connect to medieval examples of celebrity.
Max creates his black-and-white images with scratchboard, literally carving out the surface to reveal the color underneath.
First, we drew sunflowers on the inked scratchboard with pencil.
The scratchboard, in gold or silver, is laminated with a shiny, metallic base that offers impressive details with minimum effort using any standard scratching tool.

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