Ceramic Slip Sgraffito

The spring metal is thin and strong doesn t have to be sharpened and keeps the same feel as it wears away.

Ceramic slip sgraffito.

I slip my pots when they look dry but have a small bit of moisture in them. If you find spots where slip has bled under your cutouts use a sgraffito tool to scrape the clay body clean. I remade this video because of a camera issue. 11 responses to creating subtle layers with sgraffito slip and multi toned glazes.

Scratch through the slip so that the tool just barely digs into the underlying clay. Alternatively use a small brush with water to erase any areas of unwanted slip. Comments 4 responses to using slips sgraffito and inlay techniques to create a new twist on oribe. My sgraffito tool tips are made from the main spring of a pocket watch.

Clay incising leather hard resist sgraffito slip underglaze engobe wax resist. This allows for a relatively even coating of slip yet it dries a bit slower giving me time to complete my sgrafitto before the slip starts to chip when scratched. The decorative layer can be underglaze slip or engobe. I no longer use the school camera which can lose focus.

Decorating with slip and sgraffito. Making sgraffito pottery involves scratching through a top decorative layer to expose the underlying clay body. Breaking up the space symmetrically on a circular form is a quick and easy way to understand the space. Thomas born getty images creating sgraffito.

Sgraffito carving an. So the first place to start with sgraffito is choosing which clay to make your piece from. Once all stencils are removed add final sgraffito details or any other cutouts to the surface figure 15. Sgraffito in italian to scratch is a decorating pottery technique produced by applying layers of color or colors underglazes or colored slips to leather hard pottery and then scratching off parts of the layer s to create contrasting images patterns and texture and reveal the clay color underneath.

As a basic rule fine clays work much better as anything rough or with too much grog in won t create a smooth finish when you re scratching off the topcoat of slip or underglaze you can of course use the sgraffito technique on any shape or size of pot. Here is the link to the new one. Lightly draw a grid on the piece using a soft pencil like a 2b.