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Intro to Scratchboard
A Fun Art Program for Adults
2024-05-21 18:00:00
2024-05-21 20:00:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Intro to Scratchboard
Remember using those black-painted sheets in art class when you were a kid, scratching off the black to show a colorful image peeking through? This is its adult cousin! Learn and practice this black-and-white drawing medium, and leave with your own creations.
East 38th Street Branch -
Tuesday, May 21
6:00pm - 8:00pm
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2024-05-21 18:00:00
2024-05-21 20:00:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Intro to Scratchboard
Remember using those black-painted sheets in art class when you were a kid, scratching off the black to show a colorful image peeking through? This is its adult cousin! Learn and practice this black-and-white drawing medium, and leave with your own creations.
East 38th Street Branch -
Remember using those black-painted sheets in art class when you were a kid, scratching off the black to show a colorful image peeking through? This is its adult cousin! Learn and practice this black-and-white drawing medium, and leave with your own creations.
Join Esayas Zerazion, a local artist who mostly works in scratchboard art to learn and practice your hand at this interesting art practice.
Scratchboard, also known as scraperboard, is a way of drawing using a cardboard coated in India ink. The drawing surface starts completely black and is scratched using a sharp tool to reveal white lines. This is a great way to illustrate things using light and shadow.
This 2-hour class will cover:
- Esayas' background
- How light works - including highlight, shadow, core shadow, reflected light, and cast shadow
- Scratchboard + tools and techniques for using it
- Projects
Also check out Esayas' Exhibit at Central Library in April, 2024. You can also meet Esayas and 2 other Indianapolis-based artists at the Reception on Sunday, April 14.
East 38th Street Branch
Hours
About the branch
The first library to serve the neighborhood opened in 1957 as the Emerson Branch. This frame house near East 38th Street and North Emerson Avenue soon became too small to meet the neighborhood's needs, leading to the construction of a 7,500-square-foot branch at the same location in 1962. The Emerson Branch closed its doors in 2003 when the current 16,000-square-foot library opened as the East Thirty-Eighth Street Branch.