My primary process for decorating pots is monoprint slip transferring.
Ceramics slip decoration.
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.
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.
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A thicker slip can be trailed onto the object using a condiment bottle or other trailing applicator.
Slip decorating for ceramic pieces.
Slip decoration techniques in pottery.
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.
There are so many methods for decorating pottery with slip from slip trailing to mishima.
Today i am presenting another super fun slip decorating technique that reminds me of putting icing on a cake.
Slip decoration is an ancient technique in chinese pottery also used to cover whole vessels over 4 000 years ago.