Sgrafitto Tile Purpose

For my Sgrafitto tile project I partnered up with Ava and Danika. We wanted to incorporate flora by creating tiles with tropical plants and flowers.

Inspiration:

Our sketch:

            (From left to right -> Ava’s, mine, Danika’s)

Sgrafitto Tile week #2

This week I made my tile, waited for it to dry, then put aqua underglaze on it. I waited for the underglaze to dry and started to carve my design. Some challenges were that the underglaze made the tile look textured and clumpy, and I made some mistakes when carving and it was kind of hard to fix them and make them look better. I hope to overglaze next week.

Sgrafitto Tile week #3

I put the overglaze on and waited for it to be put in the kiln. I did not experience any challenges and I hope to be done in a few days.

Final Product:

Tropical Trio

May 9, 2022, clay, underglaze, overglaze

Sheron Pinsky

        

I did not find this project difficult. I thought that I would need to colour in the plants and flowers with underglaze but I didn’t, which made the project simpler and faster to finish. During this process I learned how to use a tile cutter, or just a four by four cutter for clay. If I had to do this project again I would apply less overglaze because I found that it made the underglaze fade a little bit and there are some thicker areas.