Slip Marbling Ceramics

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Slip marbling ceramics.

1795 slipware is pottery decorated by slip placed onto a wet or leather hard clay body surface by dipping painting or splashing. In this technique slip is brushed onto damp or leather hard clay after a resist of some form has been applied. This video is for educational use to teach introductory level ceramics students about the decorative techniques slip feathering and slip marbling. Barbara costanzo 5 172 views 46 20 woodturning coring a.

This versatile liquid form of clay can be used in a multitude of different ways to create and embellish ceramic art. Some slips will also give a moderate degree of the hardening effect and decreased permeability that a ceramic glaze would give. The great thing about marbling is that you will achieve a different effect every time. The trailer itself was a small clay vessel although leather fabric or animal horn may have also been used.

Marbling with clay marbling when done well can look interesting and best of all it s a really easy technique to achieve. The concept of the trailer was simple. Ceramics slip feathering marbling duration. Slips can be used with resists in order to decorate pottery.

The resist is placed in areas which are to remain slip free. How about painting the inside of the mold with a pure black slip to get the base color and then blending the painted black with a white slip using a variety of brush strokes to get the marbling effect then pouring the white casting. A small tube reed or quill was inserted into the trailer which would be filled through a top hole. Resists such as wax emulsions and hot wax repel the slip.

Cut or roll out clay slabs and put them on cloth scraps for handling. Chinese porcelain sugar bowl with combed slip marbled decoration c. Jenette morgan 4 843 views 8 01 throwing colored clay swirlware duration. Rubber slip applicators are filled with the various colored slips to be used in decoration conserve resources by starting simple with just two slips enlarging the color palette once sufficient comfort with the process minimizes material loss.

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