Scratching in style

I feel that the previous two pieces gave me a lot more confidence to start going a step further into studying my artist's work. I have noticed that my artists make a lot of marks into most of their piece, it was one of the reason that I really liked the style of their work. I feel that this piece if relevant for both Sandra Blow and John Wells. I started this piece with ivory black in the hope that adding yellow white would give my a tone between three colours, ivory black, cold grey and yellow white. Thankfully it did. I used a thick paint brush to create expressive marks  across my page, I then used my finger and blurred all of the really visible lines together. Instead of waiting for it to dry I thought I would be able to start making some scratched marks in the piece. It turns out that if you scratch it too hard when its wet the page rips, therefore I decided to wait for it too dry. After it was completely dry , I turned my paint brush upside down and started to make small marks in different directions in one of the corners. The paint was unsuccessful at making marks into dry paint, it just gave off a shiny colour and no actual paper was visible. So I decided to use a knife and it was successful, it took of the right amount of paint and it was a lot easier to make marks into the dry paint. I created scratches in different directions because I felt it represented how both of my artists make marks into their art work. Overall I feel that it was successful, I know now how to make marks and scratches into my work like the style of my artists and in my own style.