Meet for Coffee. Scratchboard, 5 x 7 in, 2007.
I fell in love with scratchboard during a workshop in 1999. The instructor was the late Bill Haussecker http://www.billhaussecker.com/ and halfway through the workshop I felt like I had come home. I was working on a rabbit, and I loved the way the scratchboard was so well-suited to depicting the fur and how the subject seemed to emerge from the darkness as I worked.
Since then, I’ve become more skilled and my subjects more varied, but I still love watching how the scratches model light, shadow and form.
