Ms. Billmann sent us a photo of the artwork that her second graders completed. They used several colors to cover a sheet of paper and then used a black crayon to cover all the other colors they had used. After the entire sheet had been covered with a black crayon, they scratched away at the top surface to reveal the colors underneath while creating a picture. We were excited about getting our first photo. We discussed the scratch art technique which the U.S. children had explored in a past art lesson, but in a different manner. U.S. children normally just scratch the surface with a ballpoint pen (one that has run out of ink) on a pre-manufactured sheet of paper that is one color underneath the black top coat. Mrs. Dengel's class agreed that the technique that the Erlangen, Germany group had used was completely their own because they each designed the colors underneath the black top surface on an individual basis. That made each artwork very unique.
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