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About the Artist: Sarah BlairSarah started using stippling in high school as a class assignment. Sarah's mother, herself a lifelong artist and teacher, from elementary school to college and a professor at the University of North Texas, told her about stippling with pens, so she tried it out using a basic felt tip pen. Sarah currently uses stippling and scratchboard drawings as a way to ease stress and relax. Feel free to contact her at Sarah-Blair@almaleahsartisans.com if you would like to commission her to use one of these techniques for a drawing for you. Please email a photograph (no portraits, please) to her at this address, with a size preference, and she will give you a quote. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stippling Stippling is the technique of using small dots to simulate varying degrees of solidity or shading. In a drawing or painting, the dots are made of pigment of a single color, applied with a pen or brush; the denser the spacing of the dots, the darker the apparent shade - or lighter, if the pigment is lighter than the surface.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratchboard Scratchboard (or scraperboard) is a technique where drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink. Scratchboard can also be made with several layers of multi-colored clay, so the pressure exerted on the instrument used determines the color that is revealed. Using scratchboard is said to yield a highly detailed, precise and sometimes textured artwork.
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