As I mentioned in an earlier post, I attended a workshop presented by Sarah McCarthy at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts in Floyd, Virginia. The workshop focused on texturing wheel thrown pottery, but we also spent some time discussing hand built and slab pieces as well. I enjoyed using slip to add texture to many of the things we worked on the workshop weekend and wanted to put the technique to work adding interested to some rather plain square plates I’d been making. I have plenty of slip in my throwing buckets at the end of a day so that was pretty easy, but screening out the grog was a little more challenging. With a great deal of determination, I managed to screen an ice cream bucket of slip and prepare it for use in a squeeze bottle. Here is a picture of one of the square plates with a slip design on the rim. I’ll have lots of experimenting to do to find patterns that appeal to me, but that’s part of the fun right? And one of the cool part about slip is you can just wipe it off with your sponge if you don’t like what you’ve done and start over. The possibilities are endless. Thanks for visiting, let me know what you think and stop in again.
