There are a number or hits for sgraffito and graffito on hotbot. Most ot them are ceramic artists who use the technique on small objects like vases and plates but there are some references to architectural applications in Italy and elsewhere.
For those of you who live in the northeast US, think Garden State Brick Face and Stucco. For those of you not in the northeast US this was a company with a particularly loud and annoying commercial which seemed to be constantly on TV about 20 years ago. They were pushing a replacement facade for buildingts in which a light coat of stucco is applied to the wall and covered by a brick red layer of stucco. The workers would then go back and scape lines in the upper coating while it was still plastic exposing the lower layer. The appearance was intended to imitate a real brick wall at a much reduced cost. I would imagine the real key here is keeping the surface from hardening while you lay out your lines. I wonder if they are still in business. Perhaps they would even supply workers to apply and work the stucco to you're specs. This might be a real cheap way to make a very large architectural vertical dial. Guido Flamini wrote: > Hallo again, > > I am from Italy and perhaps the word you are searching for is "graffito", a > term that indicates an artistic technique that make images scratching a > surface (or something like that, I am not an artist!!). > > Hope this can help > > Guido Flamini
