Day 14 of Sgraffito Challenge

This is a quick sketch as life has other things for me to do today.  I'm not really afraid of too many things...maybe flying, heights, poisonous snakes but creepy crawly things don't really bother me.  So now you've guessed todays assignment...to sketch something in powder that you're afraid of.  Here's the dreaded little brown recluse spider...identified by a little fiddle/violin on his back.  His bite is very toxic and i saw a lot of these wounds while doing home care in Texas...bad, sloughing wounds taking a very long time to heal and several led to amputations!  I guess i'm afraid of not seeing him...they're sneaky!

Day 13 of Sgraffito Challenge!

I have to admit i was a little

surprised to see the gaping jaws of a shark!  Steven Cross submitted the image of a great white.  I couldn't help but try but feeling like i only wanted to spend a short time and then dump powder back into the jar!!  I would love to do this later when i can spend more time doing it in layers with multiple firings and using grays instead of the stark white practice powder of today.  So here's the results....

Day 12 of Sgraffito Challenge

Today's assignment was to use powder & your tools to create something personal...a drawing of something you use every day.  I'll revisit this post when i have that done but since i'm the senior citizen of the group, i feel i can take a day off if i so desire.  I did color and fire a few of the previous pieces...

Day 11 of Sgrafitto Challenge

Today's challenge is to do a vegetable in powder.  I chose a sprouted onion from my pantry and used only my home-made whisk broom tool, a business card and my fingers.  The little tool i made on the tip of a pencil is neat for putting

in fine lines.

Day 10 of sgraffito challenge.

The challenge today was to put your piece of fruit into a setting or "something else".  Since i had already fired my apple, i decided to add leaves and color.  Nothing complex but it keeps me up to date!

Day 9. Fruit using fingers, card, and home-made tools

Day 9 of the challenge is to do a piece of fruit using only your fingers, business card, and home-made tools from day 7 & 8.  Since i don't happen to have one piece of fruit in the house, my apple is from my imagination and past history of doing fruit in still lifes when i oil painted.  Normally, i fire the piece first and then add color in second firing but today i decided to add just a little color to see what happens...will post results

Day 8. Sgraffito Challenge

Today we had to make a home-made tool to use in powder.  I clipped hairs from a plastic whisk broom & taped them to the end of a pencil..."hair tool". So here's a quick rendition using only the hair tool. Meat thermometer from Day 7, fingers, and business card or a piece of card.  No other tools allowed!