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Written by David
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
Dunnock feeding a Cuckoo chick
This example, of a Dunnock feeding a Cuckoo, was done on scraperboard - a white plaster coated board onto which you draw in ink with either a pen or brush, then scrape away the ink with sharp scraper tools. This scraping leaves white lines, in essence the reverse of drawing in line. It would be like making a tonal drawing by using white chalk on a blackboard - you have to think in reverse! But you can see that I used a combined scraping and line hatching method in places, on the Dunnock and the cuckoo's breast markings. This type of drawing has similarities to a woodcut.
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