Resources for Sgraffito Scratch Art Project

Here's one read aloud we found on YouTube of the book, Crying Is Like The Rain

Watch The Video

Setting the Stage

This month's project Sgraffito is a technique in visual arts used in pottery, painting, and glass. Merriam-Webster defines sgraffito as “decoration by cutting away parts of a surface layer to expose a different colored ground”. The word, Sgraffito, comes from the Italian word “graffiare” which means to scratch. The illustrations in our book this month look like the artist used a scratching or Sgraffito technique. It’s the perfect technique to use on clouds and rain!will focus on depth. What is depth? Depth is a principle of art that focuses on creating the illusion of three-dimensional (3D) space on a two-dimensional (2D) surface, such as a piece of paper or canvas. Depth is what shows you whether something in an image is near to you or farther away. Artists can use many different techniques to create depth and we're going to focus on two with our watercolor night sky project: creating depth with size and creating depth with saturation (how dark or light colors are).

Supplies Needed for Insider's Club Members (or if you're a box subscriber & want to purchase additional supplies)

If You Want to Make Your Own Scratch Paper You'll Need:

•Heavy Paper like watercolor paper, poster board, card stock, mixed media paper, or a heavy drawing paper

•Oil Pastels or Crayons

•Black Tempera or Acrylic Paint

•Foam Brush or other large-ish brush

•Liquid Dish Soap - you probably have this!

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Taking It Further Video

Taking It Even Further Video

Here's a Clouds for Kids science video that we found and thought was pretty good!

Here are a few books about clouds that we think are worthwhile:

•Clouds by Marion Dane Bauer (this is a beginning reader book)

•The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola

•Clouds by Grace Hansen

•The Kids' Book of Clouds & Sky by Frank Staub

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