Making Slip For Ceramics

Once you ve mixed the slip for about 5 minutes use a.

Making slip for ceramics.

First some basic information about making your slip. Make sure your slip is made from the same clay you re working with. A gallon of good ceramic slip should weigh 14 5 pounds plus a smidge. Like liked by 1 person.

The gravity ratio is measured by the hydrometer and it tells you the amount of water in relationship to the amount of. The slip is poured into the mold and the water is absorbed leaving a layer of clay deposited from the slip. Paint a strip of this slip mixture onto the tile and write on the tile that this is a 2 mixture. Lana wilson uses texture and clay slip to decorate much of her work.

And it should have a gravity ratio of 1 75 to achieve this you should have a hydrometer and a scale. Then submerging the dry clay in water so that it breaks down and dissolves. The mold is opened and the clay object is removed. 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.

Every once in a while i spray water in the plastic bag so the clay doesn t get dry. 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. I always use wet clay to make slip. 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.

For storing slip i like the 16 oz. You can use an underglaze pencil to write the 2 or scratch it into the leather hard clay. 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. Plastic containers with screw on lids that come in packs of 2 from the dollar tree.

Make a batch of slip out of the same clay body and add a small percentage of stain say 2. The basics of making slip for clay involves breaking pieces of bone dry clay into small parts. The dissolved clay is then blended into the water to make a smooth suspension. I never use bone dry clay.