Master scratchboard artist Linda Heath Clark will demonstrate her unique full color scratchboard technique at Placerville Art Gallery during the Third Saturday Art Walk on May 17.

To create her art, Heath Clark uses a unique full color variation on the subtractive black and white scratchboard techniques she learned working as a scientific illustrator for 16 years. Her work as an illustrator included detailed animal, insect and plant illustrations printed in environmental and agricultural publications, scientific journals and the Smithsonian Magazine. She began perfecting her full color scratchboard technique as a wildlife artist in the 1990s.