Coloring Slip For Ceramics

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.

Coloring slip for ceramics.

For more information on chemical makeup and firing temperatures take a look at this chart. Here is a recipe that is often used because it fits a wide variety of 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. That did not work out too well but led to s.

Choose your clay body. Mason stains will work with a variety of both high and low fire clay bodies. They may be used on low fire and high fire clay. When choosing to color clay you must first determine what clay body to use.

A quick video showing how i make firstly the slip for the under glazed colour for my pottery. Slip casting ceramics is a forming technique that has endless potential. The slip must be similar to the clay however so the shrinkage between the twoissimilar and the slipdoesn t crack or peel off. To make colored slip you mix a powdered oxide or stain with clay slip.

The percentages of stains varies according to the intensity of color she is trying to achieve. Students love adding color to their clay pieces especially with glaze. It s simple to do just mix up some slip from your waste clay sl. Andrew gilliatt adds a whole new level of fun to the slip casting process by using multiple colors of casting slip.

I was messing around with some slip i had added colored oxides to in an attempt to add color to another project. Only 11 left in stock order soon. There s just something magical about that dull chalky color turning into colored glass. Slips are best applied to leatherhard greenware but may be used onbisque also.

The amount of stain added is normally between 5 and 10 of the weight of the clay in the slip. The clay wilson uses is half half from laguna formulated for firing at cone 5 though she fires it to cone 6. And how deep you want the color of the slip to be. Unfortunately glaze can be expensive and eat up an art budget.