Crayon Scratch Art Tutorial

Supplies
Crayons (at least 3 colors and black)
Print Paper
Toothpick or Paper Clip
Steps
1. Draw a square or rectangle on your paper (about the size of a half sheet of paper)
2. Fill it in with 3-4 colors, pressing hard, and trying to cover all the white
3. Color over all of it with your black crayon
4. Use toothpick to draw into it. I will show you how to draw a flamingo but you can draw
anything you like
5. Add shadows using hatching or crosshatching
Adaptions
Make a really small square with just one color under it
Use fingernails to scratch into it
Extensions
Add crayon patterns under the scratch art
Artists/Art
Sunflower and Silver, Diana Lee
Michael McCurdy
Books
The House in the Night, Susan Marie Swanson and Beth Krommes
Homework
Create scratch art of a fish or another bird
Vocabulary
Reductive Drawing
Scratchboard
Tips
You can also use just oil pastels for this, they go on smooth and are extra bright
This tutorial was made by McCall Johnson for Mr Otter Studio
Music A Piano Tale by Immersive Music
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