Sgrafitto Plate

This piece is designed to resemble a tree on a hill, with its roots exposed and bare branches. To the sides there are piles I interpret as rocks. This piece was made by creating a plate of clay, drying it, adding black paint, drying that, then scratching at the surface to create my design.

This piece is purely contrast, as in it is just black and white. I tried to make it 50/50 black and white, which was fairly difficult at some points, but I managed to make it happen.

If I could improve this, I would have been slightly more careful with my tools because the rocks wouldn't have been there if I had kept my hand steadier,