We took our traditional landscape paintings in watercolor and zoomed in, imagining what the "micro" view of these landscapes would be. The 5/6's started drawing with the guidelines of depicting only Michigan flora and fauna, describing in detail with texture, the look of an animal's fur or the veins on a leaf. We spent time outside drawing close up some of the leaves and seed pods in and around our natural playground. With the rules of good composition in mind, we created drawings that we then transferred onto terra cotta cups. We used a technique called "sgraffito" where we painted black slip over the clay and scratched our design through. Our sgraffito work is based off of the super cool contemporary ceramic art works of Ayumi Hori.
