dry erase scratchboard

Here is an inexpensive and easy technique for creating an effect like scratchboard art.

Step 1 Supplies

1 write-on transparancy sheet (I used the kind used for overhead projectors)
1 crayola dry erase marker (black)

This crayola dry-erase marker is awesome. It pumps out a really bold black line better than others I've tried.

Comments

[canida]

Cool! So just to clarify - I think you're not placing the transparency ink-down on your watercolor pad to transfer the ink to the colored sheet, you're creating a two-layer sandwich with the ink facing up. This means you can re-use the colored background, and wipe and re-use the transparency as needed. Does it work the other way around, transferring the dry-erase ink to the watercolor paper?

[RaisedByRobots]

I added some new wording to hopefully clear the confusion up. Thanks!

[RaisedByRobots]

whups, I see, I didn't explain it well. Yes, the transparancy sheet is laid over the colored surface so it shows through the clear bits you scratched away. The other way around, as you suggest, definitely would not work.

[threecheersfornick]

Why not skip the transparency and do the scratching right on the scanner?

[RaisedByRobots]

ha, very funny

[Weissensteinburg]

That's awesome! Does your scanner not produce any glare on the image?

[RaisedByRobots]

Thanks! Oh, the third and fourth pictures on the first page are made by my scanner, the others by my camera.

[RaisedByRobots]

Okay, now I rearranged the pictures so the first image is the one from the scanner, it's much cleaner.

I have a little scanner from Canon, pretty nice really, only $50 bucks when I bought it (it's gone way up now for some reason) and it's as light as a pad of paper: canoscan

[maruawe]

very neat? Believe that I will do these.good type up of this work.

[RaisedByRobots]

thank you!