Sgraffito Slate

For my Sgraffito design I carved an Orca swimming in the ocean. I wanted to do an Orca because of there color black and white and I thought it would look really good with Sgraffito.

I used the tools with the little balls on the end to carve and I used the black and blue glaze for the colors then finally at the end I used the clear glaze to make it shiny.

I experimented with transferring my drawing on paper to the clay slab which I honestly found kinda difficult because the paper would rip slightly whenever I traced my artwork or the paper would move slightly so nothing was lining up the way it was suppose to. At first I was gonna do penguins but then I remembered orca whales and sense there in the dolphin family I felt like I should draw that instead because I haven't drawn to many sea animals this year. I think I could've done a better job with layering because as you can probably tell by looking at the picture there are some areas you can see through. So next time if I did this again I would definitely make sure each layer is completely dry and covered before adding more and more layers.