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Definition of Scratchboard
1. Noun. (arts) 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 ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scratchboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scratchboard
Literary usage of Scratchboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classification. Class N: Class N: Fine Arts (1922)
"A35 Airbrush art. .84 scratchboard drawing. .87 Spatter-ink art. (Indent
abott "Commercial . . . drawing.") p. 78 996 Indexes to illustrations (General). ..."
2. Adventure Guide to St Vincent, Grenada and the Grenadines by Cindy Kilgorie Brown, Alan Moore (2003)
"He paints on scratchboard, which has been primed with white. His work is primitive
and childlike. It depicts boat building, the blessing of the fishing ..."
3. Practical Drawing: A Book for the Student and the General Reader by Edwin George Lutz (1915)
"The blue pencil is the only one to use in making the first draft on scratchboard
or for drawings in wax or lithographic crayons. Save the broken points of ..."
4. Literature Pockets, Caldecott Winner by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Jill Norris (2001)
"Barbara Cooney often used a technique called scratchboard to create illustrations.
Share her Caldecott Medal story Chanticleer and the Fox as an example of ..."
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