Using Slip In Ceramics

Today i am presenting another super fun slip decorating technique that reminds me of putting icing on a cake.

Using slip in ceramics.

Like its cousin glaze trailing slip trailing applies material in lines using a slip trailer or other applicator. Chris lively applies thick slips to his leather hard pots and then uses various tools to sculpt and shape it much like a pastry chef would work with icing. Slip casting is the process of filling the molds with slip which is the liquid clay allowing it to solidify and after a while forming a layer called the cast inside of the mold s walls. One of the basic techniques learned by ceramic students is score and slip.

Roll out a slab of clay. You must dilute this amount with a like amount of water. Firstly to form the basic shape by slipcasting with moulds. Slip trailing is a great way to use clay slip as a decorative tool.

It has many uses in the production of pottery and other ceramic wares. Remember start with the minimum amounts shown below. You can use either white slips or colored slips tinted with oxides. Using colored slips or different clay bodies with the same firing temperature you can also try this process on clay.

Barium carbonate 1 2 ounce 14 75 gr soda ash 1 ounce 23 35 grams water 5 gallons 19 50 liters sodium silicate 2 1 2 fluid ounces. Clay blend 100 lbs. Brushing slip onto pots is one of the oldest methods of delivering slips to a pottery surface. You can create a marbled effect by following these steps.

There are so many methods for decorating pottery with slip from slip trailing to mishima. The brushed decoration can range from very delicate lines done with fluid fine particle slip to an overall layer of heavy. Slips are best used on wet greenware. When decorating pottery slips can be applied to ware using brushes.

The big difference is that this ceramic decorating technique not only adds lines and patterns but it also creates a raised surface texture that adds tactility to the decoration. A slip is a liquid mixture or slurry of clay and or other materials suspended in water. In ceramics the clay is shaped into vases figures and models then fired in a kiln and decorated. A slip a liquefied suspension of clay particles in water can also be used to color clay pottery prior to firing.

There are three advantages to using slips. Using pipettes or eye droppers drop small amounts of slip of another color on top. Score and slip allows the artist to join two pieces of clay together using nothing but the clay and water. This is best done when the clay is damp or leather hard.

Of dry clay blend will yield 10 gallons of slip. This has been extremely important for several centuries and secondly to protect or decorate the pottery which is. This happens because the mold absorbs the water from the slip through its pores collecting the ceramic particles against the mold. Some potters save the slips that remain when throwing other pieces.