What is slip trailing?
It is the process of creating colored lines by squeezing lines of thick liquid clay or slurry onto a wet or leather-hard piece using a slip applicator.
Types of slip applicators
Pastry Bag with nibs
To fill the bulb syringe squeeze the bottle place it into the slip and release. This should suction up the slip. Be sure to use clean water and rinse it out several times by sucking up water and squeezing it out. When there is no more color it is clean.
You can draw like normal on your clay with the slip applicators. Try to keep the tip of the slip bottle a little bit away from the clay so it doesn’t clog.
Try these methods out on a piece of newsprint or newspaper and then do it on the piece. Alternatively you can draw on the newsprint or newspaper let it dry and check this post out.
Use the newspaper or newsprint to experiment with the amount of pressure you use for the slip bottle and bulb syringe. Remember the lines are thicker the slower your hand moves and the more pressure you apply. The less pressure and the faster you move your hand the thinner your lines become.
Try varying the speed and pressure of your slip trailing. You can make some really cool designs slip trailing.
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