Ceramics Slip Decoration

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Ceramics slip decoration.

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. Today i am presenting another super fun slip decorating technique that reminds me of putting icing on a cake. Three cups with cut feet wheel thrown and altered red clay slip glaze soda fired to cone 1 in a gas kiln. Principal techniques include slip painting where the slip is treated like paint and used to create a design with brushes or other implements and slip trailing where the slip usually rather thick is dripped onto the body.

A more liquid slip can be brushed on sprayed on or pieces can be dipped in a container of slip. Slip decoration is an ancient technique in chinese pottery also used to cover whole vessels over 4 000 years ago. Slip decorating for ceramic pieces. This allows me to constantly keep things changing the images the texture the colors so each piece becomes its own little world.

Slip decoration techniques in pottery. There are many ways to use slip to decorate ceramic pieces. A thicker slip can be trailed onto the object using a condiment bottle or other trailing applicator.