This mug, using the sgraffito method decorated with fun wildflowers and bees. The wheel-thrown mug is black and white and created with speckled white clay (which has specks once it has been fired to over 2100 degrees). There is a bee painted on the bottom of this piece of pottery.
All items are completely handmade. No two items will ever be alike.
Sgraffito is a technique where potters can put a layer of glaze or slip on a piece of pottery, let it dry, then use a pottery carving tool to scratch at it to show the base layer of color. Sgraffito derives from an Italian word meaning “to scratch”.
