Marbling Slip Ceramics

You can apply the marbling technique to many pieces of pottery.

Marbling slip ceramics.

The same technique can be used by modern day potters using underglaze. Marbling slip after trailing slip over damp or leather hard clay slip trails can be modified by turning or shaking the piece of pottery or combing through. Marbling with clay or slips is a great way to make your pottery into a work of art. The marbling technique on this heart plate is fun and easy.

The pink and red colors of this marbled heart plate were inspired by what else love. How to paint pottery ceramics. This is even more important with slip pottery than clay marbling. Once you have covered the area you want marbling with foam and underglaze carry it to the sink.

Liquified clay slip was colored and painted on the pottery before burnishing to create decorative patterns. This video is for educational use to teach introductory level ceramics students about the decorative techniques slip feathering and slip marbling. You can marble pottery by either coloring the clay and making the marbled pattern with your clay. Or you can make a marbled decorative effect on the surface of the pottery using underglaze or slip.

This can be done by throwing on a pottery wheel or hand building a slab pot. Basically it consists of layering contrasting colors of slip on a slab and jiggling the slab to distort the slip layers into interesting marbled designs. Wet slip inlay is a great technique for getting fantastic organic patterning on pots. One such method involves using colored slips to create a marbleized look on pottery which is reminiscent of staffordshire style english marbled slipware.

The history of marbling in europe dated back to around the 17th century and was particularly popular in staffordshire in england. If you re using slips it s almost like art in a sense. Here s how to do it. And what a better valentine s day gift.