scratch drawings
on a recent trip to colorado to visit my dear fellow art therapist friends, they reminded me of a fun little activity that i used to do when i was a little girl – scratch drawings! as a kid, i loved the magic of revealing a rainbow under a dark, black veil. i thought N might appreciate this, too.
i thought i remembered painting thick paper with watercolor, coloring over it with thick black crayon, and scratching… but perhaps not. my art therapist friend (and momma) was doing this with her 3 year old and reminded me that you can color with crayons or pastels, and then put a thick coat of acrylic paint over the whole page to scratch through. so we gathered our materials (thick paper, crayons, acrylic black paint) and began…
N and i both covered a page with patches of tons of colors… i got a blister from doing this!
then we painted over the entire lovely page with black acrylic paint.
we let it dry overnight. once it was dry, we got out a few scratching tools – a wooden skewer, a paperclip, a tack, and a nail. not all of them were cool for young kids, but N seemed to do well and was careful with all of them. whew!
N drawing with a nail. (bad mommy?)
we scratched and scratched to reveal fun pictures… “nighttime scenes!” as N excited called them.
you know me and cutting things out and putting them on colorful papers as borders. (yeah, i did that again. maybe for cards?)
