This relief tile has taken me a very long time to do, and I'm still not done! I chose to do a setting on the waterfront in Italy. There is a lot of small houses and rocks and trees, which makes for a very detailed piece. I loved the idea of having three layers. One for the foreground, middle ground and the background. Cutting out the little houses and shaping everything was very difficult and tedious. But it has made for a piece that I am very proud of! I developed my art making skills by using clay like this for the first time. I had used it before to make pottery, but never to carve out a entire scene. I created original art as well. Although this wasn't a picture that I took I was able to use it to make something completely different out of it. I solved a problem during the process too. When I was first carving it, m clay was too wet, which made it really hard to get certain things the way that I wanted them to be. To solve this I put the clay in a bag that would allow more air in to dry it out a little bit.