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This blog post is going to be about my most recent project of working with Sgraffito. I was inspirited by a past project that I tried to do back to when I was in Art I. I was working with clay for the first time and I wanted to create a gift for my mom. So I decided on the two things she loves most in the world, coffee and sunflower. I made her a coffee mug with sunflower piece that I crafted by hand, the only thing that it didn't turn out so good. I gave up on that present for my mom until Sudkamp brought up the idea of Sgraffito and as a light bulb went off, I return to a past idea. I begin by figuring out measurements and stretching out a long and thin piece of clay. It took a couple of tries but I finally got it right in the end. Next, I pinned the two ends of the clay together by cutting off the edges and scratching out lines before dripping it with water. Just like glue, my piece became one. I made a circular bottom and added to the piece. I brushed out the piece in order to smooth it out and make it simply perfect. Once that was done, I simply had to wait until it was leather hard and then the fun come truly begin. The second my piece became dry, I grabbed black underglaze and painted the entire thing from bottom to top to inside to the base at least 4 times until it was as perfect as I could get it to. Beforehand, I printed out some pictures of sunflowers and simply traced against my piece 3 times and next came the step that truly made my piece a sgraffito. With a carving tool, I begin to trace my sunflower leaving behind a little line between each petals. It took me a couple of days to finish the entire thing and before I was done, I decided to add tiny little dots throughout my piece with a drilling tool. The final step is to fire my piece and check to see if it adds more black underglaze then coated it with clear underglaze for shine. Thank you for reading!! Hoped you enjoyed!!
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