Thursday, September 12, 2019

Sgraffito

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again.
~William Faulkner

Sgraffito today. Sgraffito is a form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color (on walls or pottery).

Sgraffito
photo by Maryele

House covered with sgraffito
Greece
photo by Kostisl

Carved and Incised Vessel with Deity Heads, A.D. 600-900
Guatemala

Portrait of Aristotle, 1500-1550
Italy
shared by MicheleLovesArt

Maison Cauchie, architecte Paul Cauchie, 1905
Belgium

Kraków - Prelates House
photo by Andrzej Otrębski

Movie theater
Hungary

How to do it yourself:


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2 comments:

  1. HWYSeptember 12, 2019 at 8:39 AM

    I've always wondered what this process was called, and now I know.

    These are excellent examples of the wide range of "canvases" that can be used.
    Loved the Aristotle portrait and the Maison Cauchie particularly.

    The DIY video was great.

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  2. Liz SteinglassSeptember 12, 2019 at 4:03 PM

    Beautiful. We used to do this when we were kids with crayons. We'd color over a whole piece of paper with colors and then with black and then we'd scratch through the black. It was like magic.

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