{"id":4607,"date":"2007-04-12T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2007-04-12T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T14:19:00","slug":"this-n-that-about-pottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"This-n-That About Pottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Is it Thursday already? This week seems to be flying by so fast.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">I\u2019ve been keeping myself occupied with pottery and loved my class Tuesday afternoon. Rachel (the instructor) taught some really cool things about mold making. I\u2019m not one who has ever been hip on molds as I like to create each piece and want everything to be unique. However, she shined the light on carving, and added such great character in these molds that I can see how I could enjoy that journey. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">P.S. The only molds that I&#8217;ve embraced in the past are the little birds, flowers, leaves and such that I like applying to my finished pieces.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">She also touched on slip. Slip is actually clay watered down so thin with water that it becomes the thickness of heavy cream or thicker depending on what you want to do with it. When using a very dark clay body and applying slip (that\u2019s made out of beautiful white porcelain) with a brush over the entire surface of the dark clay body, makes the piece &#8216;look&#8217; like a white clay body. Then you take your carving tools and begin to carve into the clay and where you carve, the dark clay body shows through. It\u2019s pretty cool. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">With slip you can also do what is called slip trailing. Slip trailing is basically painting a design on a piece with either white or colored slip. To make colored slip you can add colorants into the porcelain to change the color. Below is a sample of what someone (not me) has done over a dark clay body. They\u2019ve added a blue colored slip design over the clay and used a clear glaze over the top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_15jEUMtexcE\/R5i_gMOGvfI\/AAAAAAAAAnk\/wspS6lpfdRk\/s1600-h\/Slip+Trail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_15jEUMtexcE\/R5i_gMOGvfI\/AAAAAAAAAnk\/wspS6lpfdRk\/s400\/Slip+Trail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159083932910009842\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it Thursday already? This week seems to be flying by so fast. I\u2019ve been keeping myself occupied with pottery and loved my class Tuesday afternoon. Rachel (the instructor) taught some really cool things about mold making. 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