Sgraffito
A technique of scraping off, used in oil or acrylic painting, where lines in the top layer of paint or gilding are scraped to reveal a different coloured layer beneath.
OF 1
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk
by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1629
NPG 2391
Barbara Hepworth
by Dame Barbara Hepworth
1950
NPG 5919
Seamus Heaney
by Ross Wilson
1994
NPG 6261
OF 1
