Monica Wright on wed 17 sep 08
I did that once on some sculpture of mine.=A0 It worked great, looked great=
, seemed wonderful... untill I opened the kiln and most of it chipped off i=
n the kiln.=A0 HUGE learning experience.=A0 Hours of work wasted.=A0 Run lo=
ts of tests first.=A0 I did, but they were small tests.=A0 The sculptures w=
ere huge.=A0 I should have ran tests that were similar to the work in every=
way -size, firing schedule, etc...=A0 I cried for hours.=A0 I think that i=
s why God invented AMACO underglazes.=A0 Totally idiot-proof.
=A0
-Steve
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Kathryn Fields wrote:
From: Kathryn Fields
Subject: slip recipe for ^ 5/6
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 7:40 PM
I'm wanting to use slip for decoration and wonder why a good mixture
can't
be made from my clay plus oxides, possibly in the same proportions as liste=
d
for the more 'start from scratch recipes' found in many places. Is
this
reasonable or am I missing something?
Kathy Fields
Kathryn Fields, Publishers
Experimental Helo magazine
P. O. Box 1585
Inyokern, CA 93527
(760) 377-4478 ph
(760) 408-9747 publication cell
(760) 608-1299 technical cell
www.experimentalhelo.com
www.vkss.com
eh@iwvisp.com
sfkf@iwvisp.com
Kathryn Fields on wed 17 sep 08
I'm wanting to use slip for decoration and wonder why a good mixture can't
be made from my clay plus oxides, possibly in the same proportions as listed
for the more 'start from scratch recipes' found in many places. Is this
reasonable or am I missing something?
Kathy Fields
Kathryn Fields, Publishers
Experimental Helo magazine
P. O. Box 1585
Inyokern, CA 93527
(760) 377-4478 ph
(760) 408-9747 publication cell
(760) 608-1299 technical cell
www.experimentalhelo.com
www.vkss.com
eh@iwvisp.com
sfkf@iwvisp.com
John Rodgers on thu 18 sep 08
I don't do much slip decorating - BUT - from everything I have read, yo
are ahead of the game to make your slip from the clay you are using to
form your work.Colorants can be stains or oxides. Home made slips are
best applied to greenware that is still green - ie, still has a lot of
water in it. There are an y number of publications that tell you how to
make slip for decorating. purposes.
Good luck.
John Rodgers
Chelsea, AL
Kathryn Fields wrote:
> I'm wanting to use slip for decoration and wonder why a good mixture can't
> be made from my clay plus oxides, possibly in the same proportions as listed
> for the more 'start from scratch recipes' found in many places. Is this
> reasonable or am I missing something?
>
>
>
> Kathy Fields
>
>
>
> Kathryn Fields, Publishers
> Experimental Helo magazine
> P. O. Box 1585
> Inyokern, CA 93527
> (760) 377-4478 ph
> (760) 408-9747 publication cell
> (760) 608-1299 technical cell
> www.experimentalhelo.com
> www.vkss.com
> eh@iwvisp.com
> sfkf@iwvisp.com
>
>
>
Lee Love on thu 18 sep 08
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:23 AM, John Rodgers wrote:
> I don't do much slip decorating - BUT - from everything I have read, yo
> are ahead of the game to make your slip from the clay you are using to
> form your work.
I use a lot of slip. See if you can buy you claybody dry. Very
easy to make a slip of. (trimmings work, but just take more time.)
On my dark clay, I use superwhite, a white stoneware, for a white
slip. I have been using Bauer slip recently, from John Britt's glaze
book.
--
Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://heartclay.blogspot.com/
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
http://claycraft.blogspot.com/
"Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." --Rumi
The Fuzzy Chef on thu 18 sep 08
Kathryn Fields wrote:
> I'm wanting to use slip for decoration and wonder why a good mixture can't
> be made from my clay plus oxides, possibly in the same proportions as listed
> for the more 'start from scratch recipes' found in many places. Is this
> reasonable or am I missing something?
I'm about to test that. I'm planning on testing:
Clay body alone
Clay body + gum arabic for stretch
Stoneware engobe recipe from _The Potter's Companion_
Slip recipe from this list
I'll let you know how it works out; note that I'll need to have both a
bisque and a glaze firing before I can give you any results.
--Fuzzy
Kim Hohlmayer on tue 23 sep 08
Hi All,
I always say I am more alchemist than chemist, but here is what I came up with to create a slip that worked on bisque then was fired to ^8. And no, I don't have exact measures. Puttz around with the quantities and test, test, test!
I used powdered white earthenware, an assortment of mason stains, oxides and the stains from other companies and a little low fire clear glaze as a sort of binder. Laugh all you want at my lack of technical know how but it worked. As I've said before I prefer my clay naked but wanted to do some line decoration on pins and buttons I was making. I don't have any specific recipe because I was mixing everything in minute amounts. I added the stain a little at a time until the color was right then used about a fifth of that amount in low fire clear glaze and added water until it was paintable. It gave me a raised design that fired onto the bisque and stayed put, neither running nor flaking off.
Technically this probably counts as a matte glaze but it got results. --Kim H.
--- On Thu, 9/18/08, The Fuzzy Chef wrote:
> From: The Fuzzy Chef
> Subject: Re: slip recipe for ^ 5/6
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 10:58 PM
> Kathryn Fields wrote:
> > I'm wanting to use slip for decoration and wonder
> why a good mixture can't
> > be made from my clay plus oxides, possibly in the same
> proportions as listed
> > for the more 'start from scratch recipes'
> found in many places. Is this
> > reasonable or am I missing something?
>
> I'm about to test that. I'm planning on testing:
>
> Clay body alone
> Clay body + gum arabic for stretch
> Stoneware engobe recipe from _The Potter's Companion_
> Slip recipe from this list
>
> I'll let you know how it works out; note that I'll
> need to have both a
> bisque and a glaze firing before I can give you any
> results.
>
> --Fuzzy
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