scraffito is where you cover a wet slab of clay with underglaze and carve out designs from the glaze. The first step is to roll out your slab of clay about 1/4 an inch thick. Then you lay it on the tray that matches the shape you want and make sure everything is smooth. The next step it to cover the top of the slab in glaze. Once the glaze is mostly dry but while the clay is still wet you can start carving until you are happy with your design. By this time you're try should be dry enough to remove the clay from what ever you used to make the shape. The last step is to dip you piece in glaze, but before you do you must add wax to the bottom of the clay so that is doesn't stick to the shelves of the kiln. I think the most successful part of my piece is how even the glaze is and if I could work on anything it be to do a better job at cleaning up excess clay after I carved. I learned that wax can keep glaze from sticking to the clay.
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