Zerostreet's Tiki Art! - Other Crafts

Z zerostreet Tiki Socialite http://www.zerostreet.com Joined: Feb 06, 2010 Posts: 2411	Z zerostreet Posted posted on Fri, Nov 5, 2010 4:01 PM On 2010-11-05 07:54, MadDogMike wrote: On 2010-11-05 05:12, zerostreet wrote: ... Everyone who sees it comments that it feels like something that was printed on the box that has faded and been scratched off with time. My first impression was that the black was on top of the color and was scratched off to make the design. The technique is called sgraffito in ceramics, not sure what it would be called in painting. That's a good idea! There's scratchboard, which is india ink over a white clayboard I have an illustration on scratchboard up at my tikitower.com gallery.

On 2010-11-05 07:54, MadDogMike wrote:

On 2010-11-05 05:12, zerostreet wrote:
... Everyone who sees it comments that it feels like something that was printed on the box that has faded and been scratched off with time.

My first impression was that the black was on top of the color and was scratched off to make the design. The technique is called sgraffito in ceramics, not sure what it would be called in painting.

That's a good idea! There's scratchboard, which is india ink over a white clayboard I have an illustration on scratchboard up at my tikitower.com gallery.

Post #563671 by zerostreet on Fri, Nov 5, 2010 4:01 PM