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.
Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey
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




