Ceramics Slip Decoration

My primary process for decorating pots is monoprint slip transferring.

Ceramics slip decoration.

Three cups with cut feet wheel thrown and altered red clay slip glaze soda fired to cone 1 in a gas kiln. Beth peterson is a potter artist and writer with more than 30 years of experience crafting clay and ceramics. A thicker slip can be trailed onto the object using a condiment bottle or other trailing 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.

A more liquid slip can be brushed on sprayed on or pieces can be dipped in a container of slip. There are many ways to use slip to decorate ceramic pieces. Learn about the spruce crafts editorial process. Today i am presenting another super fun slip decorating technique that reminds me of putting icing on a cake.

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. There are so many methods for decorating pottery with slip from slip trailing to mishima. Slip decoration techniques in pottery.