Slips are best applied to leatherhard greenware but may be used onbisque also.
Coloring slip for ceramics.
The best percentage depends on the color of the stain.
Unfortunately glaze can be expensive and eat up an art budget.
The clay wilson uses is half half from laguna formulated for firing at cone 5 though she fires it to cone 6.
I was messing around with some slip i had added colored oxides to in an attempt to add color to another project.
The percentages of stains varies according to the intensity of color she is trying to achieve.
The amount of stain added is normally between 5 and 10 of the weight of the clay in the slip.
Andrew gilliatt adds a whole new level of fun to the slip casting process by using multiple colors of casting slip.
There s just something magical about that dull chalky color turning into colored glass.
To make colored slip you mix a powdered oxide or stain with clay slip.
For more information on chemical makeup and firing temperatures take a look at this chart.
A quick video showing how i make firstly the slip for the under glazed colour for my pottery.
The slip must be similar to the clay however so the shrinkage between the twoissimilar and the slipdoesn t crack or peel off.
And how deep you want the color of the slip to be.
Mason stains will work with a variety of both high and low fire clay bodies.
In today s video an excerpt from his video layers of color andrew shares how he uses a turkey baster to add an organic colored pattern to a slip cast.
Here is a recipe that is often used because it fits a wide variety of low fire clay bodies.
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Slip casting ceramics is a forming technique that has endless potential.
Choose your clay body.
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They may be used on low fire and high fire clay.
Students love adding color to their clay pieces especially with glaze.
When choosing to color clay you must first determine what clay body to use.
To prepare the clay slip wilson takes 100 grams of small pieces of bone dry clay and adds 10 50 grams of a ceramic stain.