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Scratchboard art: an owl, an old tree and a horse portrait

Scratchboard — A barn owl's face and breast filling the sheet, every feather a scratch of white out of black, the eyes left dark and glassy with a single scratched catchlight, the down of the breast in fine curved strokes, the background solid black., scratchboard illustration, white lines scratched out of black clay board, fine engraving-like strokes

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Reading 1Owl
Reading 2Old tree
Reading 3Horse portrait

Scratchboard is white lines cut out of black: every highlight a scratch, every dark left untouched. These nine cross a barn owl, a gnarled winter oak and a horse in profile, rendered as classic black-and-white, ink-tinted scratchboard and a reversed black-on-white look. Ask for a wolf or a lighthouse instead and the same three finishes redraw it.

  • a wall print for a study or hallway
  • a gift for a wildlife or nature lover
  • a set of three animal portraits
  • a reference for engraving-style illustration

Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each image is drawn in portrait format (832×1216) with an even margin — prints clean on A4 held vertically.
Can I use my own subject instead of the three shown?
Yes — the direction field takes your own idea, such as a wolf or a lighthouse, and the same three finishes draw it.
What's the difference between the three finishes?
Classic black-and-white is the traditional scratched-white-out-of-black look; tinted adds transparent ink colour over the whites; reverse flips it to black lines on a white ground.
Is this a scan of a real scratched board?
These are new images drawn in the scratchboard tradition — not scans of a hand-scratched original board.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.