If you find spots where slip has bled under your cutouts use a sgraffito tool to scrape the clay body clean.
Ceramic slip sgraffito.
Lightly draw a grid on the piece using a soft pencil like a 2b.
Sgraffito carving an.
Decorating with slip and sgraffito.
Once all stencils are removed add final sgraffito details or any other cutouts to the surface figure 15.
Making sgraffito pottery involves scratching through a top decorative layer to expose the underlying clay body.
My sgraffito tool tips are made from the main spring of a pocket watch.
To make the tip cut a piece of spring heat it with a small torch and bend it to the shape you want.
The decorative layer can be underglaze slip or engobe.
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Scratch through the slip so that the tool just barely digs into the underlying clay.
Thomas born getty images creating sgraffito.
I remade this video because of a camera issue.
I no longer use the school camera which can lose focus.
The spring metal is thin and strong doesn t have to be sharpened and keeps the same feel as it wears away.
I slip my pots when they look dry but have a small bit of moisture in them.
Breaking up the space symmetrically on a circular form is a quick and easy way to understand the space.
Clay incising leather hard resist sgraffito slip underglaze engobe wax resist.
Here is the link to the new one.
Often the underglaze slip or engobe is applied to leather hard clay before being incised.
So the first place to start with sgraffito is choosing which clay to make your piece from.
Alternatively use a small brush with water to erase any areas of unwanted slip.
Sgraffito in italian to scratch is a decorating pottery technique produced by applying layers of color or colors underglazes or colored slips to leather hard pottery and then scratching off parts of the layer s to create contrasting images patterns and texture and reveal the clay color underneath.