Creating Ceramics with the Slab Technique
Making Your Own Slip
A course by Jeremy Bellina , Potter
About the video: Making Your Own Slip
Overview
“By gently adding water to bone-dry clay, I will now teach you how to make your own slip. Slip is a very gooey kind of glue made from clay. It's important to take your time with this process—if too much water is added, you will achieve the wrong consistency. ”
In this video lesson Jeremy Bellina addresses the topic: Making Your Own Slip, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Ceramics with the Slab Technique. Craft unique and organic forms using a simple pottery method: the slab technique..
Partial transcription of the video
“Okay, let's make some slip. So basically, Sleep is a very gooey kind of glue that we make out of clay. So we will basically mix some bone dry clay and add some water to it and basically turn it into something that is highly gooey, highly sticky. And this lip will be necessary in the future when we do our creations to connect all the parts together. So let's get started. We have a container. We have some bone dry clay. So it's clay that I left on purpose outside in the air for a few hours, a few days even. And basically it breaks off like this. very easily. So we want to break it off in tiny...”
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Course summary for: Creating Ceramics with the Slab Technique
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Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Decoration, DIY

Jeremy Bellina
A course by Jeremy Bellina
Jeremy Bellina is a French Potter based in Berlin. Before investing himself full-time in ceramics, he had a 9 to 5 job that he grew tired of. Pottery helped him get in touch with his creative instincts and find fulfillment in his career. He has designed a range of ceramic items for brands such as Plant Circle, Up and Coming, Cafe 21 Gramm and Lode, and Stijn. His artwork has also been exhibited at Vessels Berlin and Sculptural Connections.
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