Sgraffito is the act of scratching away a surface to create a design by revealing another color underneath. Sgraffito is widely know as a technique used on clay with glaze, but we did it using layers of oil pastel. The first step is that you need to create a layer of light and bright oil pastel colors on a piece of paper. Then you cover that oil pastel with a layer of black oil pastel. You then use scratch sticks to scratch away the black oil pastel to reveal the colors underneath. The theme for this project was real or imaginary trees. We studied and compared and contrasted artists that have used trees as subject matter in art. We studied different kinds of trees by watching a short video and looking at pictures. The students were then asked to come up with an idea to create either a real or imaginary tree. Almost every student chose to create an imaginary tree and they are all pictured below.
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