Figure Pottery

1. Figure Pottery Decorating with Colored Slips and Sgraffito

2. Storytelling and Sequential Art Today Frank Miller’s 300- Movie and Graphic Novel Productions: Late 20th –early 21st Century

3. The Actual 300 Spartans • King Leonidous lived Approx 500 BCE • Black figure Amphora c. 510-500 BCE

4. Ancient Greece • Commoners at the time were illiterate. • People recorded history, stories and myths verbally or through pictorial representation. Tondo of “Memnon pieta” 490–480 BCE

5. Black and Red Figure Pottery • Stories are represented in vertical sections called Friezes on pottery. Etruscan Boxing. Black-figured amphora, 510-500 BCE

6. Sgraffito Technique • Artists brushed black or red slip over leather-hard greenware. • Then, they used tools to scrape away color to reveal the red or tan clay underneath. Diosphos Painter Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector Black Figure Lekythos 490 BCE From Etreria

7. Video Demo • Watch the video, take notes, learn the technique.

8. Red vs Black Figure Pottery • When the slip is scraped away from the background and outlines, leaving the figures black, then it is black figure pottery. • This method came first. Theseus and the Minotaur black-figure kylixtondo, 450–440 BCE

9. Just the opposite, when slip is scraped away from the objects and figures leaving the background black it is called red figure pottery. Fighters with Athena and Hermes Red Figure amphora, 530 BCE. From Vulci • This style came later and was the canon of classical and late Greece.

10. Sgraffito in Pre-Columbian Pottery (Stolen) Toltecan Tripodal Animal Cup Mayan Funerary Urn

11. Sgraffito in Native American Pottery Left: Pueblo PolychromeWedding Vase Above: Traditional Polychrome Hopi Pottery Bowl

12. Contemporary Sgraffito Pottery Jeff Martin Laura Jean McLaughlin Peter Saenger