Sgraffito

The subject of my creation is an African Mask in the form of a statue. We used clay, underglaze, clear glaze, and I used tools to carve into the clay. I found a pretty cool picture of what a typical African Mask would look like so I decided to make my own. I think a specific element that I used in this project was patterns.

Techniques that I used was patterns like I said before and thats about it. I originally was gonna try to do an orca but that was until I came across a picture of an African Mask and became very interested in if I would be able to create my own.

Theres not much of a backstory to it I just had a sudden liking to the masks that Africa could create with there imagination, and the project doesn't really relate to my life. I do think my rough draft on the scratchboard did come out better but I do think this one also came out just as good so I wouldn't really change anything.