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Sgraffito (Italian: [zɡrafˈfiːto]; pl. sgraffiti) is an artistic or decorative technique of scratching through a coating on a hard surface to reveal parts of another underlying coating which is in a contrasting colour.
Sgraffito," Italian for "to scratch," is a technique that involves applying color to a piece, and then scratching part of that layer off to reveal the clay beneath it. [13] Soon, probably inspired by trips to Thailand, which boasts a colorful variety of plant life, Weiser began to incorporate china painting in his working methods, [ 14 ...
Joseph Lonewolf (January 26, 1932 – November 9, 2014) was a Native American potter from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, United States.He was known for his use of historical methods and his development of sgraffito and bas-relief techniques used a nail filed to a point as his main carving tool.
Another form of decoration adds decorative elements in clay over the walls of the vessel and sgraffito is usually done with only one color such as black on black. A relatively rare form of decoration for the pottery is the incision of the clay vessel while the clay is still moist. [6]
Scratchboard or scraperboard or scratch art [1] is a form of direct engraving where the artist scratches off dark ink to reveal a white or colored layer beneath. The technique uses sharp knives and tools for engraving into the scratchboard, which is usually cardboard covered in a thin layer of white China clay coated with black India ink.
The more abstract or free-flowing parts of the design involved trailing slip from a quill attached to an animal horn. These anthropomorphic and zoomorphic shapes were given rich detail by scratching lines in the white slip to reveal the dark clay underneath, a form of drawing known as sgraffito and
Joseph Slawinski (November 27, 1905 - 1983) was a noted sgraffito artist and sculptor. A professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, he emigrated to the United States in the early 60s and worked extensively in western New York.
Alumina, often derived from clay, stiffens the molten glaze to prevent it from running off the piece. [7] Colorants, such as iron oxide , copper carbonate or cobalt carbonate , [ 7 ] and sometimes opacifiers including tin oxide and zirconium oxide , are used to modify the visual appearance of the fired glaze.