Dan

Ok, the picture quality is bad...really bad, but I was in a rush. It had been a really long time since I had made one of these, but I needed a quick and meaningful gift for a guy I hadn't known very long- so I decided to whip out my scratch board and give it a try. I should have practiced with easier stuff first to get back in the hang of things, because I messed up A LOT. Oh well, he loved it, so no harm, no foul.

Aiden

Picture I did for my friend's son, just for kicks and giggles. Isn't he a cutie?

Aysha's Birthday Gift

Aysha's B-day gift turned out amazing. I also decided that I really like presenting them with a copy of the origional picture too. I do all of this by hand, and  it's awesome to watch people's faces light up.

Justin's Birthday Gift

Picture for Justin's Birthday. I had learned to pick my pictures carefully and posterize (SO MUCH EASIER)

Savannah's Birthday Gift

 

This is the first scratch-portrait I ever did of someone I know personally, and I definatly did it the hard way. I have since learned that it is much easier to posterize the photo first instead of trying to do all the little details that I did with this one... Anyway, Happy Birthday Savannah!

Fae

Starting to get slightly more complex now

Woman from the Magazine

I found this picture in a magazine many years ago in Fashion school....and it spoke to me. You will see this picture A LOT in my art. In the original picture, the woman had a white face with black marking- but at this point I was just barely learning scratch art- so I decided that would be biting off a little more than I could chew.

Woman in the Mirror

Another picture I discovered in a magazine. I was going to do the rest, but then realized that that was beyond my skill level...I learned the hard way that you can't erase on scratch paper.

Shy

My first etching (or scratch art) for my adult years