Ceramics Slip Decoration

This allows me to constantly keep things changing the images the texture the colors so each piece becomes its own little world.

Ceramics slip decoration.

Learn about the spruce crafts editorial process. 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. There are many ways to use slip to decorate ceramic pieces. Three cups with cut feet wheel thrown and altered red clay slip glaze soda fired to cone 1 in a gas kiln.

A more liquid slip can be brushed on sprayed on or pieces can be dipped in a container of slip. Slip decoration techniques in pottery. Slip decorating for ceramic pieces. There are so many methods for decorating pottery with slip from slip trailing to mishima.

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 thicker slip can be trailed onto the object using a condiment bottle or other trailing applicator. My primary process for decorating pots is monoprint slip transferring.