Making Slip For Ceramics

The basics of making slip for clay involves breaking pieces of bone dry clay into small parts.

Making slip for ceramics.

With a screw on lid you can get a tighter seal than you can with snap on lids which means your slip will still be usable the next time you need to use it. Make sure your slip is made from the same clay you re working with. I always use wet clay to make slip. Paint a strip of this slip mixture onto the tile and write on the tile that this is a 2 mixture.

You can use an underglaze pencil to write the 2 or scratch it into the leather hard clay. Plastic containers with screw on lids that come in packs of 2 from the dollar tree. First some basic information about making your slip. Once you ve mixed the slip for about 5 minutes use a.

The gravity ratio is measured by the hydrometer and it tells you the amount of water in relationship to the amount of. For storing slip i like the 16 oz. Then submerging the dry clay in water so that it breaks down and dissolves. Lana wilson uses texture and clay slip to decorate much of her work.

Step one is to have a 5 gallon bucket filled 60 75 with your bone dry clay then add water until it s a few inches below the rim figure 1. Make a batch of slip out of the same clay body and add a small percentage of stain say 2. The mold is opened and the clay object is removed. The process of slaking clay to make it into slip is a simple one.

I save all of my little scraps of clay put them in a gallon size plastic bag and when i have enough clay i make slip. I never use bone dry clay. It s a a lot of fun to do washes of color on textured surfaces leaving concentrations of the glaze or ceramic colorants in the recesses but sometimes when the clay slip or glaze is washed off the color loses its vibrancy. A gallon of good ceramic slip should weigh 14 5 pounds plus a smidge.

Like liked by 1 person. Let it slake for 24 hours then mix it by hand a little with a stick figure 2. The dissolved clay is then blended into the water to make a smooth suspension. Every once in a while i spray water in the plastic bag so the clay doesn t get dry.