Monochromatic Masterpiece

MonoChromatic Masterpieces

Going GREEN

STUDENT ART

Art1- Fall 2025

 

Where do you start?

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VOCABULARY- 

Medium/Media- art tools used to create artwork. 

(Ex: collage, pen and ink, marker, colored pencil, collage, charcoal,  

paint (acrylic, oil, tempera, watercolor.)

Hue- a color on the main part of color wheel. 

Shade- adding black to a color, making it darker. 

Tint- adding white to a color, making it lighter. 

Tone- adding grey to a color, making it more neutral. 

Analogous- 3 colors on the color wheel next to each other. 

(ex: yellow/green, green, blue/green)

Monochromatic- Using ONE COLOR in various shades, tints, and tones. 

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In your sketchbook, sample a variety of mediums in one color. 

Label them what you used and note what they are best at. 

Begin a plan for your piece of artwork. Use as many different mediums as possible for your picture in various tints, tones, and shade. You can also use the analogous versions of them. 

DIY Scratchboard

Here we use the method of DIY Scratchboard board. 

This method uses a resistant material (oil pastel or crayon) underneath black tempera paint. This technique was introduced previously. 

Lesson before the lesson, Record Vinyl Scratchboard. 

1. Plan out a simple design for your scratch board beneath:

Landscape, cityscape, portrait, animal, or still-life. 

*Keeping it simple is ideal or else design may be hard to follow when making it revealed when scratching. 

2. Put design up thick paper (cardstock or poster board). 

3. Outline with black permanent marker. 

-painters tape around edges optional. 

4. Color in design HARD and FULLY 

With oil pastels or non-washable Crayola crayon. 

5. Paint solid with black tempera dish soap mixture. 

6. Allow to dry. 

*scratching works best if it is freshly applied paint. Paint seems to stain certain colors if left on too long before scratching. 

6. Start scratching. 

Students using a variety of scratching patterns.... 

I used horizontal scratches all over until the design was somewhat revealed. 

After design started to reappear, I went around edges of subject to remove black for emphasis . 

7. Complete the scratches all over. 

Finishing touches. 

Add any extra scratches in places of emphasis. 

Pull off tape if used. 

STUDENT SCRATCH ART

Advanced Art 2025

 

Online examples were hard to find. If you have done this before, please share. 

https://wildcatsarts.weebly.com/scratch-art-from-scratch1.html