Catalonia・Sgraffito Facades: Scratched Gray Patterns

A plastered wall with sgraffito patterns. The technique involves first applying a dark base coat, then a lighter top coat. Before the top coat dries, a portion of it is scraped away to reveal the base color, forming patterns of flowers, geometry, or figures. The colors are limited to two tones: off-white and grayish-brown. The patterns usually appear between windows, below cornices, and on balcony railings, covering small areas and being flat without a three-dimensional feel.
Avoid: using colorful painted patterns, making the patterns into three-dimensional reliefs, filling the entire wall with patterns, using modern printed imitations of sgraffito.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面有刮除圖案的抹面牆。做法是先抹一層深色底再抹一層淺色面,趁未乾時把面層刮掉一部分露出底色,形成花卉、幾何或人物的圖案;顏色只有兩階,是米白與灰褐。圖案通常出現在窗與窗之間、簷口下方與陽台的欄板上,面積不大而且是平面的沒有立體感。避免:使用彩色的繪製圖案、讓圖案做成立體的浮雕、把整面牆都填滿圖案、使用現代印刷的仿刮畫。