sgraffito
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Definition:
A technique where a top layer of color is scratched to reveal a colour beneath. The term comes from the Italian word sgraffire meaning (literally) "to scratch".
sgraffito: a technique that involves scratching through one layer to reveal another.
shallow relief construction: see bas-relief.
SGRAFFITO
Technique in which the surface layer is incised or cut away to reveal a contrasting color. Return to top
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sgraffito Decorative technique in which the overland surface is harrowed or cut through, so as to form the design from the contrasting ground underneath.
sgraffito - (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.
Sgraffito
A decorative process. A line is scratched through a layer of slip or glaze before firing to expose the clay underneath. From the Italian, meaning literally "to scratch."
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sgraffito...A method whereby a layer of color is scratched into with a point to reveal either another layer of color below or the white of the ground, thus making a linear pattern.
sgraffito - A method of decorating or designing a surface, as of paint, plaster, slip (engobe), or glaze, by scratching through a layer of one color to expose a different color underneath.
Graffito or sgraffito: Italian for 'scratching'. technique for decorating stuccoed walls, in which a layer of plaster is applied over a different coloured layer, and a design then scratched through the top layer. Popular in 16thC Italy.
graffito - Sgraffito, a method in which a line is produced by scratching through one pigmented surface to reveal another.
Graffiti (sing. graffito) or SGRAFFITO, meaning a drawing or scribbling on a flat surface, originally referred to those marks found on ancient Roman architecture.
Sgraffito
Scratching or cutting through a layer of colour to expose the ground or support, or to bring up a second layer of colour underneath the last laid. The term was introduced by Otto von Falke in 1507.
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the background buildings are rendered in fairly thin, opaque paint, while the rest of the design is constructed in multiple layers of glazes, especially thin and liquid in the trees; there is stiff impasto in the highlights, and occasional sgraffito ...
The word sgraffito is also related to the word Graffiti in which it conveys a method of scratching through a layer of paint in order to reveal another pigmented layer below.
SGRAFFITO
the process of scraping into a layer of paint to reveal the what is underneath.
SCUMBLING
the addition of paint to a surface in such a way as to leave parts of the previous layer revealed.
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sgraffito - design produced by scratching or incising through an outer layer of paint or glaze to reveal a contrasting ground * ...
 See also: Painting, Sculpture, Composition, Glaze, Plaster
  
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