Sgrafitto final

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My tile came out and it isn’t how i thought it would look. I thought it would be clean bright white/cream-ish colores lines but something must’ve happened while it was in the kiln because the black underglaze seemed to bleed into those lines and make it much harder to see. I still do like the end product and it still means a lot to me but i’m very confused with how this has happened. I’m guessing that perhaps i used too much underglaze and so when the overglaze went on and cooked into the glass like coating, it was too much for the underglaze to stay in one place and it basically melted into the areas around it. EduBlog wont let me post pictures of my final product but i’ve attached it to the Teams assignment. The brightness of the lights caused the shine on the tile to be pretty extreme so you really can’t see the lines well but in person it looks much much better and i think I’m gonna take it home and use it as a paper weight!

The labels of this work are:

Title of Artwork:”Rest in power”
Date, Medium: (May-June 2022) Clay(Ceramics)
Artist Name: Emma Barkley
The thing I found most difficult about this project was getting the size of the tile correct because I used a ruler because I didnt know the tile cutter existed but itn was the wrong size so it’s a but too small.
The thing I learned most about during this project would probably be how to make clay look very angular and with sharp edges.
if i did this project again I would definitely use the regular tools for carving out the underglaze even if it gave me less artistic freedom to do the small detailed lines, because then it probably wouldnt have bled. I also would have used less underglaze on my tile so that if that was why it bled, it wouldn’t happen again and also so that i could get the project done faster.

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