Owner: DMD Scratchboard Gallery Blog URL:http://dmdgallery.blogspot.com Join Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:23:01 -0500 Rating:1 Site Description: The official blog of DMD Scratchboard Gallery and Denise M. DesLauriers. Denise has worked as a professional artist for over 26 years. During that time she has specialized in using scratchboard to create her designs, drawings and paintings. Site statistics:Click here
Two Pumpkins, New Scratchboard Art Card 2006-10-22 21:50:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Two Pumpkins
'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". I have several autumn themed drawings that I will be posting over the next few weeks, so check back often. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, fall, autumn, pumpkins, pumpkin
Pumpkin and Leaf, New Scratchboard Art Card 2006-10-21 18:21:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Pumpkin
and Leaf'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". I have several autumn themed drawings that I will be posting over the next few weeks, so check back often. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.
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Leaves, Scratchboard Art 2006-10-17 16:20:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Leaves'. The board size is 10" x 8". I have several autumn themed drawings that I will be posting over the next few weeks, so check back often. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.
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Scratchboard Art, my Squidoo Lens 2006-10-14 18:49:00 As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a Squidoo
Lens that I titled, 'Scratchboard
Art'. I consider it my 'website-at-a-glance'. There is lots of interesting and useful info and links. For those that are unfamiliar with Squidoo, it is place to share information. Whether it is your art work, organization, or just your favorite topic, you can create a lens to get the word out there. Consider it another free place to advertise, promote, or speak your mind.I'm also Lensmaster for the following Worldwide Women Artists Squidoo Lenses:'Worldwide Women Artists' is a general 'website-at-a-glance' lens, with lots of useful info and links.'Worldwide Women Artists Who Blog' is a list of several of the members blogs and journal. If you like to surf blogs this is a great way to visit some great artists and view their artwork. All the participating artists have the image link below somewhere in our blog to make it easy to return to this lens.I'm also working on a lens called the 'WWA
Spooked!, Halloween Scratchboard ACEO Art 2006-10-10 19:56:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Spooked!'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". This is the last of my Halloween
drawings for this year. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, pumpkin, moon, jack-o-lantern, halloween, colored scratchboard
Double Trouble, Halloween Scratchboard ACEO Art 2006-10-09 15:54:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Double Trouble
'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have. Sold!Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
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Jolly Jack, Halloween Scratchboard ACEO Art 2006-10-07 19:34:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Jolly
Jack'. The board size is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have. Sold!Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
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The Power of Three, New Scratchboard ACEO Art 2006-10-06 19:58:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'The Power of Three
'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". This is the fifth drawing in my 'Eyes in the Night' series. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have. Sold!Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, cat, moon, cats
Eyes in the Night - Bat, Scratchboard ACEO Art 2006-10-05 18:16:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Eyes in the Night
- Bat'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". This is the fourth drawing in my 'Eyes in the Night' series. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have. Sold!Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, bat, moon
Eyes in the Night - Cat, Scratchboard ACEO Art 2006-10-04 03:47:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Eyes in the Night
- Cat'. The board size is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". This is the third drawing in my 'Eyes in the Night' series. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have. Sold!Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, cat, moon
Eyes in the Night - Owl, Scratchboard ACEO Art 2006-10-03 01:35:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Eyes in the Night
- Owl'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". This is the second drawing in my 'Eyes in the Night' series. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have. Sold!Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, owl, moon
Eyes in the Night, Scratchboard ACEO Art 2006-09-30 14:27:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Eyes in the Night
'. The board size is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". I created the drawing for the Worldwide Women Artists' October Exhibition 'Illuminations of the Unseen'. I like the results so much, that I decided to do more ACEO's using similar images. I'll be showing you these in posts to come. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, cat, moon, WWAO, Worldwide Women Artists
Antelope Moon, Scratchboard Art 2006-09-26 23:00:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Antelope
Moon'. The board size is 12" x 18". For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.
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Swan Moon, Scratchboard Art 2006-09-08 01:16:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Swan Moon'. The board size is 19" x 12". For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.I recently added another venue for customers to find my work online. ArtWanted.com is a large online artist community. You can view and purchase some of my scratchboard art thru my portfolio on their website.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
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Kentrosaurus, a New Scratchboard Commission 2006-09-01 18:21:00 My drawing for this post is definitely one of my more unusual scratchboard commissions. "Kentrosaurus" is 14" x 11". Click on the image to view a larger picture. Feel free to contact me with any comments or questions you might have.WWAO is holding their first online art exhibition on their website Worldwide Women Artists. The theme for this exhibition is Garden of Delights. Be sure to take time to enjoy this amazing artwork, by talented women artists from around the world. The exhibition will be online thru the month of September.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
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Cat Eyes - Patches 2, New Scratchboard Art 2006-08-28 19:01:00 My drawing for this post is titled "Cat Eyes - Patches 2". It is another miniature drawing in my 'Cat Eyes' series. The board size is 6" x 4". For information and detail pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.I was invited to join another blog list. Please take time to visit TopBlogArea.com and rate my site. And don't forget that you can also visit Blog Village and vote for my site, too! Thanks!Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, cats, cat
How do I create my scratchboard drawings??? 2006-08-23 17:27:00 I start each project with research and a lot of sketching. Once I have the idea worked out, I create
a preliminary drawing on tracing vellum. A layer of graphite is applied to the back of this drawing. The drawing is laid (graphite side down) onto the scratchboard. I then trace over the entire drawing again, creating a light graphite copy on the scratchboard. Most of my work is done with an exacto blade. I work in layers of scratches (dots and lines) across the whole board. Each layer or level of detail adds more 'light' to the drawing. Very small areas can be changed, but correcting larger areas causes too much damage to the surface of the clay. So, if I'm not happy with what I have done, it means starting over. When I am going to be adding color, I use artist's gouache (opaque watercolors) and a small brush. If you have any questions, please contact me.
My scratchboard artwork for this post is a commission that I just finished. It is titled "Tiger Eyes for Sara". The board size Read more:drawings
What is Scratchboard??? 2006-08-16 17:40:00 I've had several questions about scratchboard and 'how do you do that?'. And although I give some info on my website: DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, I thought a few basic articles might be interesting for my readers.I'll start first with "What is scratchboard?" Basically, scratchboard is either a stiff paper or board that has been coated with a thin layer (the boards usually have a thicker layer than the paper) of white or colored clay. Ink or paint is applied over the top of the clay, either by the artist or the manufacturer. It was originally designed in the 1800's, as a quick and inexpensive alternative to other etching methods for illustrations needed in printing books, newspapers and etc. There are several types and qualities of scratchboard. What a particular artist uses depends on what the purpose of the drawing is (whether for school, fine or commercial applications) or personal preference. I use a heavy weight board that has been coated with white clay and black india ink. It
Cat Eyes - Patches 1, new miniature scratchboard drawing 2006-08-06 03:34:00 'Cat Eyes - Patches 1' is my newest miniature
scratchboard drawing
in my 'Cat Eyes' series. The size is 6" x 4". Click the image to go to its webpage for more information and detail pictures.For those of you that tried to vote for my blog at 'Blog Village' (the link is under blog lists to the right), I've fixed the links so that you can now vote for my site. Sorry for the coding mess, I know just enough to be dangerous...I'm on 'MySpace' now. My ID there is: 'dmdartist'. I'll be updating my blog there when I update this blog and my Live Journal.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, cats, DMD Scratchboard Gallery, miniature, Blog Village, MySpace
Mountain Majesty, a miniature scratchboard drawing 2006-07-30 01:03:00 This scratchboard drawing
is called 'MountainMajesty
'. The size is 6" x 4". Click the image to go to its webpage for more information and detail pictures.You may notice that I've made some changes to my sidebar. A bit of reorganization and regrouping. Hopefully it will make it more useful. I've added a flickr badge of some of the scratchboard artwork that is available on my website. And I've included a link to subscribe to my feedburner feed.For those of you that prefer the 'Live Journal' community and format, I've created my own 'dmdartist's Live Journal'. I will be including pretty much the same posts as in this blog.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, landscape, mountains, DMD Scratchboard Gallery, miniature
Blog Village, a new Top List 2006-07-23 17:46:00 I was recently invited to join 'Blog Village
' a family friendly blog TopList. You can vote for my blog and visit other great blogs by clicking the image below or the image in my link list at right. Thanks!The scratchboard drawing below is called 'Alpine Waterfall". The size is 4" x 6". Click the image to go to its webpage for more information and detail pictures.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, landscrape, waterfall, DMD Scratchboard Gallery, Top List
I've created a Lens on Squidoo 2006-07-17 17:26:00 For those of you unfamiliar, Squidoo
and lenses are another way of sharing my work with more people. Go to my lenses to find out more. I would appreciate it if you would also take a couple of minutes to rate my lenses. And if you decide that you would like to create your own lenses, click here. Thanks!This scratchboard drawing is called 'Bald Eagle Moon'. The size of this artwork is 16" x 20". Click on the image to go to it's web page, to get more information and to see detailed pictures.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, eagle, moon, DMD Scratchboard Gallery, bald eagle
Charity Scratchboard listings for NCHS 2006-07-10 00:42:00 I have these three scratchboard drawings listed on the art auction site ArtByUs, until August 8, 2006. 20% of the purchase price will be donated to NCHS. Click on the image to be taken to that listing. If you have any questions please contact me.Cat Eyes - Fat Cat, 7"x5"Cat Eyes - Kitten, 6"x4"Irish Eyes, 4"x6"The North County Humane Society mission is to improve the health and well-being of animals in San Luis Obispo County (California) by providing critical support services to animals, promoting positive human - animal relationships and responsible guardianship, and advocating for animal welfare issues. For more art benefiting this cause, search NCHS on ArtByUs.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, cats, dogs, DMD Scratchboard
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Hillside Garden, an original scratchboard drawing 2006-07-03 00:19:00 'Hillside Garden
' is one of the scratchboard drawing
s available on my website. Click on the image to go to its page for more information and detail images. I will be featuring a different drawing from my website with each new post.
I've recently added a 'Customer Comments' section to my 'About My Artwork' page. These are just a few of the many positive comments I have received from satisfied customers, since I started selling my artwork online.
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Subscribe to DMD Scratchboard Gallery Blog! 2006-06-21 17:20:00 Now you can have updates of my blog sent to your email address. Just type your email address into the form over in the sidebar and subscribe. It's that easy. Then you will never miss another of my posts. Your email address is totally secure and will note be shared with others. You can unsubscribe at any time. I will be using this to replace the newsletter that I have been sending out via email in the past. Let me know if you have any questions about the service. Leave a comment here or contact me.
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Two Maple Leaves, New Scratchboard Art Card 2006-10-23 17:56:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Two Maple
Leaves'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". I have several autumn themed drawings that I will be posting over the next few weeks, so check back often. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.Technorati tags: art, artwork, artist, scratchboard, drawing, scratchboard art, DMD Scratchboard
Gallery, Denise DesLauriers, fall, autumn, maple, leaves
Three Oak Leaves, New Scratchboard Art Card 2006-10-24 22:11:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Three
Oak Leaves'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". I have several autumn themed drawings that I will be posting, so check back often. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.
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Gallery, Denise DesLauriers, fall, autumn, oak, leaves
Frozen in Time, Scratchboard Art 2006-10-27 16:24:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Frozen
in Time'. The board size is 6" x 4". For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.
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Fall Leaves, Scratchboard Art Card 2006-10-30 20:49:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Fall Leaves'. The board size is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.
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Gallery, Denise DesLauriers, fall, autumn, leaves, aceo, art card
Cat Eyes - Lazare, New Scratchboard Art 2006-11-03 23:57:00 My drawing for this post is titled 'Cat Eyes - Lazare'. The board size is 6" x 4". I created this miniature drawing for this month's WWAO exhibition called 'Rememberances'. (The exhibition hasn't been posted on their site yet. I'll let you know when it has.) Lazare was a very special friend who died about seven years ago. This drawing is also the latest in my 'Cat Eyes' series. For information and detailed pictures of this drawing, click on the image, and you will be taken to it's web page. You can also contact me with any comments or questions you might have.
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