Ceramic Arts: Specialization: Traditional Techniques

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 Domestika addresses the topic: Making Your Own Slip, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ceramic Arts: Specialization: Traditional Techniques. Create unique ceramic vessels at home, learn clay molding, design, firing, and glaze techniques for decorative pieces.

Partial transcription of the video

“Making Your Own Slip Let's make some slip. Slip is a very gooey kind of glue that we make out of clay. We will mix some bone-dry clay with some water and turn it into something that is highly gooey or highly sticky. This slip will be necessary in the future when we do our creations to connect all the parts together. Let's get started. We have a container and some bone-dry clay. It's clay that I left outside in the air on purpose for a few hours or a few days even. It breaks off like this very easily. We want to break it off into tiny bits and then we will add some water and mix the whole th...”

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Course summary for: Ceramic Arts: Specialization: Traditional Techniques

• Level: Beginner
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• 1723 students
• 7 units
• 101 lessons (17h 58m)
• 31 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Decoration, DIY, Fine Arts