It happens to everyone. You get your hands on an Etch-A-Sketch for the first time, and armed with the knowledge of how it works, you’re sure you can draw things other than rectangles and staircases.

That magical screen that let you draw and erase endlessly wasn’t magic after all. Inside the Etch-A-Sketch was a thin layer of aluminum powder. The knobs controlled a stylus that scraped away ...

The application from a local artist named David Roberts proposed displaying artists’ illustrations — but on Etch A Sketch toys. Johnson, Clark County’s library gallery services director ...