sgraffito design

Our assignment we were told to complete was a sgraffito block carving. The way I took this assignment was I decided to create a leaf-like structure with different elements incorporated. I added flowers and leaf-like designs running on the back of the tile.

I created my sgraffito block by rolling out a slab of clay and once dried I painted on an underglaze. Once that was dried I started to carve my design out. Once that was done I painted my new colors in some of the spaces I carved out. Once I completed that I put it in the kiln and fired it. I then put the shining glaze on my block and completed my assignment.

The meaning of my block is just something fun I decided to make. The way I interpreted this assignment was just to make something creative, fun, and pretty. I like my leaves in the background but something I did not like was the way my stem looked on my block. I thought it was a little too thick and I could not fix it because I had already carved it.