Scratch Art

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Lucas Burken  "4020"

9x12, Scratch Art , 2025 

My idea was to find a way to recreate our tractor. I got the idea because this was our first good tractor and we use it for lots of things. 

My process was to first print off the picture and then trace it through transfer paper onto the scratch paper. I then had to scratch it into the paper with a scratch tool.  

The artwork doesn't mean anything important or special just that its our original tractor before we got bigger. I want my audience to think about how this generation of tractors and equipment really shaped the future of farming.

The most difficult part was making sure I had all the lines transferred because if I didn't I would have been screwed.

This style of art is realistic, Its unique because I usually don't do something like this and I love how its simple but still looks really good.