This Week at Torch: Animal Faces on Scratch Paper 🐾✨

This week’s art session at Torch is all about bold lines, wild whiskers, and expressive eyes. Using scratchboard paper (also known as “skratch paper”), students create striking animal faces portraits—scratch by scratch—from deep black backgrounds.

The process is simple, but the results are dramatic: Students used wooden styluses to etch away black ink and reveal the white layer underneath, slowly building form and texture through cross-hatching and freehand motion. The prompt? Draw an animal that reflects something about your mood, personality, or energy.

✨ Why Scratch Paper?
Scratch art invites a different kind of focus. It slows students down. Every line becomes intentional. There's no erasing—just creative risk-taking and confidence-building. And because it flips the usual drawing process (light from dark), it exercises new parts of the brain while offering a meditative rhythm.

Art doesn't just reflect the world—it reflects us. And this week at Torch, we scratch beneath the surface.