sgraffito

Noun

sgraffito

1. In art, the scratching through of one layer of pigment or slip to reveal an underlying one.

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• Definitions:
• Decorative technique whereby one layer of plaster is scratched to form a pattern. Popular in sixteenth-century Italy.
• Decorative technique in which the overland surface is harrowed or cut through, so as to form the design from the contrasting ground underneath.
• a decorative technique of scratching through a coloured slip to expose another colour underneath.
• A method of decorating pottery after firing wherein the surface is scratched to form intricate patterns.
• Process of boiling bark to change its colour (darken it) then scrapping away the dark colour to create designs and patterns.
• Technique in which surface layer of paint is scratched through to reveal color underneath.
• A decorative technique wherein slip coatings were incised to expose other slip colors or the body itself.
• Incising through a layer of slip to reveal the clay underneath. This is best done when the slip is leather hard.
• Sgraffito or graffito is a method of decorating involving scratching through a layer of plaster to reveal a different coloured ground. Sgraffito is an ancient form of decorating, with examples being evident in the ruins of Pompeii ©2007 The Probert Encyclopaedia. Data used under license.
• a technique that involves scratching through one layer to reveal another.
• A decorative technique, where by the surface of the clay is scratched, often to expose another layer of colored clay.
• (pronounced sgraf-ee-to) - Italian term meaning scratched; in painting, one color is laid over another, and scratched in (with the other end of the brush, for example) so that the color underneath shows through.
• A method whereby a layer of colour is scratched into with a point to reveal either another layer of colour below or the white of the ground, thus making a linear pattern.
• a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground
• Sgraffito ("scratched", plural Scraffiti and often also written Scraffito) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colors to a moistened surface, or in ceramics, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting ...

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