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This week I am going to talk again about my sgraffito piece, a coffee mug craved in sunflowers and dots. I started this progress by stretching out a long piece of clay then taking out the measurements that I had beforehand and simply cutting it out. After a couple of failed attempts, I got it perfect. Next, I begin to glue the two ends of the clay together. I had to cut off the corners, scratch around the two areas and finally add a much of water as the glue. I had to hold the two end together for a couple of minutes. The next thing that I did is trace out a base for the bottom of my mug and glue it exactly how I did with the mug, itself. Once I had the mug built, I used a brush to smooth everything out and made it simply perfect then I simply had to wait. I had to wait until the mug was leather hard and once it was, I could paint it with black underglaze. I painted at least 4, maybe 5 times, to make sure that no strokes were visible against my mug. Once again, my mug had to dry and once it did, I begin to trace the sunflower pictures that I had printed beforehand from the internet. I traced three sunflowers around my mug. The tracing was done, I begin to carve with a carving tool and with that, my ordinary mug became a sgraffito. I traced the sunflower for about 2, 3, days before it was perfect. When I would trace the petals, I made sure to leave a line between each petals, providing a more realistic look to my piece. For a final touch, I used a drilling tool to create dots around the center as if it was a real sunflower. I also used a bigger drilling tool to add dots around the base of my mug, around the sunflowers. I finished off with covering a couple of smudged parts with black underglaze then I sent it to be fire. Once it came out, I coated in clear underglaze for shine and sent it to be fire once again. I though this entire project was really fun to do and I think the end results were simply beautiful from everyones that I seen from my classmates. I saw things from plates to mugs to vase to much more. The entire progress of sgraffito is simply beautiful to look at because the craving themselves leave this gentle and nearly perfect image. The progress of creating a piece of Sgraffito is simple so peaceful and calming to create; I could have spend hours craving out sunflowers around the base of my mug. The most successful part of my mug were simply the handler and the sunflowers themselves. I did the handler by copying a classmate, I created the handler by twisting two snake piece of clay together like it was a candy cane of clay. The handler ended up a little edgy but smooth just like I wanted it. The sunflowers, well, looked like flowers, which is exactly what I wanted from them and more then that, they looked like sunflowers; I couldn't have been happier. I created gentle and smooth sunflowers, they might not have been identical but they ended up pretty good if I do say so, myself. The only thing that I would change about my piece is I would have work more on the mug itself, curving it around the rim to look more curvy like a coffee mug and made it a less tall but other then that, I couldn't have been happier with my piece. Thank for you reading!! Hoped you enjoyed!!
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