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.
Ceramics slip decoration.
Slip decoration is an ancient technique in chinese pottery also used to cover whole vessels over 4 000 years ago.
There are so many methods for decorating pottery with slip from slip trailing to mishima.
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.
Slip decorating for ceramic pieces.
Slip decoration techniques in pottery.
This allows me to constantly keep things changing the images the texture the colors so each piece becomes its own little world.
Beth peterson is a potter artist and writer with more than 30 years of experience crafting clay and ceramics.
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Three cups with cut feet wheel thrown and altered red clay slip glaze soda fired to cone 1 in a gas kiln.
Today i am presenting another super fun slip decorating technique that reminds me of putting icing on a cake.