Facebook and their ads algorithm is continually showing me art-related ads and I keep clicking on them. Then they showed me the scratch-off art kit and it looked fun! It also looked less messy than the paint-by-numbers kits they'd been showing me so I decided to try the Eiffel Tower kit.
As you can see from the image, it's relatively easy. All I have to do is scratch off the silver lines. I've done the top of the tower so far. However, I ran into a couple of things as I worked.
Number one, the tool they provide is cheap and difficult to work with. I can buy better scratch-off tools, but I have a feeling this is going to be my one and only scratch-off project, so it's not worth the investment. Number two, this is messy. It is very, very messy because those scratchings have to go somewhere. They're fine, tiny things and they stick stubbornly to the drawing board. I found that they don't simply fall off with a couple of quick taps of them board against paper.
Once again, my desire to be an artist has been frustrated. This time it isn't lack of skill because pretty much zero skill is required. It's because it's sort of tedious and the free tool is horrible. Back to the drawing board (pun intended).
