To create my zentangled design, I first had to make the scratch board. To do this, I started by filling an entire page of watercolor paper with pastels. This part was a ton of fun but it did end up hurting my fingers during the rubbing process to make the pastels more smooth. Once that was done, I mixed black tempera paint with dish soap and painted it over my pastels. I attempted to apply this on thick, but no matter what my ratio of paint to soap was, I could not get that mixture to paint on thick to save my life! Due to this, I ended up having to do 5+ coats just to cover the pastels. This ended up being a huge mistake because when it came time to scratch off the paint to reveal the colors underneath, it was extremely hard and I ended up scratching off a lot of the pastel colors as well because I was scratching so hard and deep. I ended up doing this project at least four times in an attempt to get a better scratch board that wasn't so thick but I had no such luck. The above project is the best of the bunch and I still wish the colors were more vibrant and the black was darker. If I were to do this again I would talk to other students in the class to see what they did to get theirs to work so then I could go home and try again using their process.
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