Scraffito Animal

The subject of my creation is an Emperor Penguin sliding down a slope. This work was made through clay, it took me a really long time to make the penguin itself out of clay, after that, out dried out for two days and then I glazed it. After the penguin was fired, I made a little design of two fish on it's back, and the sgraffito in the natural design of an Emperor Penguin. After the design was made, I clear glazed the Penguin with three coats and then the Penguin was fired again, and then, since part of the beak came off, I picked a white plastic hair tie that contrasted with the black penguin and used it to represent waste pollution. I chose to create this specific work because I thought making a penguin would be unique. Specific elements and principles I used in my artwork are, balance with every design equally distributed and strategically placed in a way that looks appealing. Elements I used were line because the scraffito technique is all about lines and designs.

Composition rules and techniques I used in my artwork were, formal balance like I said before, grouping with the fish on top and the natural design of the body elsewhere. At first, I was going to make a seal but it just wasn't working out for me, and then I changed my idea to a penguin. It still doesn't look like anything I wanted it to look like which makes me kind of frustrated but there I did my best.

The meaning behind my artwork is that everything is connected. Between the fish and the penguin, the plastic and the penguin and the plastic and us, and even the penguin and us, We're all connected and what we do affects everything around us. This project relates to my life because I really love marine life in general and I am really amped up about waste pollution in the ocean. I think that, if there was anything I would change, it would be the body shape to make it look more like an Emperor Penguin.