Everything you wanted to know about slips and stencilling but were afraid to ask.
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- A comprehensive tutorial on slips and using them. Applying and layering stencils with multi layered slips. Using foam stamps to texture and pattern the surfaces, hand painting detail using slip and underglazes. Thickening and thinning slips for varying uses. The video shows complete projects for five different pottery projects.
Wonderful video Vaughan! One of your best. Thank you. Your generosity is astonishing, as is your talent. I truly admire your work. Respect man!
Thanks, did you enjoy the end surprise?
Perfect timing for me! I'm just starting to play with cone 6 slip.
As always you are a GREAT TEACHER and so GENEROUS with your time and talent.
Thank you Vaughan!!!!!
You are welcome.
You are always an inspitation! I learn a lot by watching how you do things.
Thanks
Stay safe in the coming storm. I worry about folks living so close to the sea with global warming causing sea rise. Thank you for excellent instruction once again.
Still so many deny the issue. We know we will lose the building one of these storms. The waves come right under my building just 3 feet away.
I guess they’ll start believing it when their homes and businesses are inundated by water that never recedes. The US is so divided on global warming. I hope Canada is more reality based than we seem to be.
It's so nice to hear others who understand the science.
@@VsmithpotsSo true! Especially when there is so much science and evidence to prove it.
Thank you for keeping me company while I load my kiln for tomorrow morning’s bisque firing. It’s 21:04 so a mug of hot chocolate and the remainder of this video the, lock up the studio for the night. Cheers Vaughan
You are welcome, solitary potters life makes even a UPS delivery exciting.
Wow Vaughn, what beautiful pieces. Very tedious process! Ty for teaching this.
Glad you liked it.
Love the video - so talented! The layers for stencils slightly blow my mind… can’t work out how to do it ! Have tried with one layer! Would love it if you could post what all these in the video look like after firing/clear glaze? Thanks so much for your teaching! X
The pieces are being glazed this week along with other cone 6 pieces to see if I can combine my stencil pieces with regular glazed stoneware. In the past when I tried this the slips became a little translucent and the brush strokes showed through the layers. Fingers crossed.
Tried one layer too. Failed with blurred silhouette and lost of color. Probably fired too hot in a school gas kiln. Great timing of this video to think about making own slip and follow techniques.
They are in the kiln this week, they will be shown around New year weekend.
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Hi Vaughn!! Love your videos & you & your talented wife!!
You are both very talented. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for sharing your process. I'd love to see the pieces after they have been glaze fired. Time to go looking for those phone books. I know they're shoved into a shelf somewhere...
The pieces show up in the kiln unloading videos around last Xmas/ New Year. Thanks for watching.
I learned so many great tips for slip! Can’t wait to apply them. I also can’t wait to see how they turn out, my brain can’t process that many layers 😂😂
You will get there.
I appreciate the lessons. Thanks so much.
You are welcome.
Your work is beautiful.
Gosh, you really are talented! x
wow! thank you! it is incredible to see how many layers are possible using this technique.
3 to 4. After that it is hard to find the paper.
Outstanding video! Crikey difficult keeping up with you!!! Hehehe saving to my Vaughn Smith file to watch again, just love it, happy potting from South Africa 🇿🇦
Thank you, I hope your summer is not too hot.
Valuable information, thank you!
Love your pieces! I am going to try handbuilding some candle sticks! But I don’t mix my own glazes. Not ready for that😊
Hi. Thank you for this video. I love how you do your stencilling. I want to give it a go, but I'm not quite confident to do so yet. I think I might have to rewatch a few more of your videos.
You make it look so easy. I am practicing.
Восхищаюсь!!!!
Так хочется посмотреть работы после обжига!!!!!
Жду -недождусь!!!
На этих выходных я глазирую детали, а завтра обожгу их. Фотографии будут в видео рождественских выходных. Спасибо и будьте в безопасности.
Best forming!
Thankyou for this, it has covered everything I could think of and more about stenciling and slip. You are an encyclopeia of knowlege in ceramics. Thankyou for sharing and showing your 'how to'. Will need to watch again and mako of notes ❤😊
Vaughan, thank you so much for this tutorial. I have learnt so much from you. I can’t wait to use this technique, I tried it using underglazes but it cracked off after firing. Maybe I’ve put it on too thick?
Excellent tutorial Vaughan! Your patience is amazing, as is your memory for the placement of the stencils. I wonder if you ever smooth down the edges once they have nearly dried, where the thickest layers show? I have seen some people place a thin sheet of paper overtop and smooth carefully.
I air brush my slips so the layers are quite thin and very even. I have a rubber ball I have used once the piece is leather hard, or you can lightly sand after the bisque firing if any sharp edges are revealed.
The yellow is beautiful. Could you share what colour it is please Vaughan. I’m new to pottery and learning so much from your tutorials. Thank you very much from sharing your knowledge. x
It is an old Ferro Fritt stain, I would think Mason Stain has a similar one.
Please show us how to make a spray booth! 😊
I am working on it.
What kind of clay do you use, stoneware, earthenware, or porcelain for this technique? I love your work 💕
Excellent
Beautiful work Vaughan. How did you make the yellow slip? Did you use a mason stain and if so what was the actual color name and number? Or did you use an oxide(s) to make the color? Cheers
Great video, I’m just getting into doing slip so this really helps. That yellow slip is lovely, is it a mason stain that colours it?
Bailey pottery supplies has it. ( Spice Brown #6111
SKU C-006-111 ). I thought it was from Ferro Fritt but I have not bought it in 20 years so may be it is now from mason Stains.
Awe geee hoped I was going to see fired product.
They are in the kiln unloading video I just published last weekend.
thanks for this great video. I work a lot with slips and underglazes and I have just been adding water to them, but I didn't really have a formal training as such, just evening classes. I'm not sure there are going to be any old school potter left in the future? they are decreasing the number of places you can do a ceramic degree it seems
You are welcome. I hope you can learn all you need from the CZcams degree program, the tuition is free.
Thank you! Do you show these once they are fired? I’d love to see the final results!
Yes they are in the kiln unloading videos around last Christmas.
Thank you for your great video! Question why don't you add a little water to the slip to make it less viscous instead of the sodium silicate?
Thanks so much!
Do you perhaps have a tutorial on how to make your slip? I’m not sure how much stain or oxide to put in the slip.
Love this. Do you have a video that shows what you use to make your slip. Thank you
The recipe is in this video (czcams.com/video/v1BO3cRqV4c/video.htmlsi=UtXuCt4lU1armrHv )
What kind of paint brush are you using to get such fine lines on the sailboats?
Is that one of those Japanese paint brushes?
Yes.
Love your videos. How do you make the sponge stamps?
A soldering iron.
Wow! Can't wait to see the finished pieces. Did you change up your slip recipe or is the difference that dictates a cone 6 firing the clay body you made the pieces with?
I posted the cone 6 slip recipe along side the cone 4 recipe in the last video on slips a week ago.
Sorry, missed that post - thanks for letting me know@@Vsmithpots
Sorry to be asking so many questions.
One more though... on your detailed work, are you having to go back over the details 2-3 times?
I just paint in the details in once.
Do you think butane torches would be the same as using propane torches regarding residue?
Probably, A paint stripping gun is electric and works very well.
Your stencils have such details (I.e. the sailboats). Do you hand cut them with scissors? Exacto knife? They are so elaborate like the kind one could make using a Cricut machine. But I don’t think you can use the phone book paper with one of those.
I use scissors, exacto knife and simple ones can be cit on a 360 degree scroll saw.
Do you wait for each stencil application of different colors to completely dry before adding other colors?
Also, when you attach multiple stencils with water, it doesn't thin or fade out the previous stencil?
I wait until they are touch dry, just losing the watery sheen. No thinning with layers, not enough water if you wait 5 seconds.
Can one use this technique on hand built pots?
Are you using Mason Stains for your colorant? I use them for my Terra Sig.
Yes
I'm wondering Vaughn if you can do this process with glazes instead of colored slips?
If you can get the stencils to stick to powdery surfaces, that would be hard.
Why couldn't one thin down slip that is too thick by just adding water? I'm sure there's a good reason. Thank you!
Water would reduce the opacity of the slip.
@@Vsmithpots Got it. Thank you!
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What is the music you use. I know it’s steel string guitar possibly weissenborn, but who is the musician?
I use the music from CZcams audio on CZcams premium. Chris Haugen and Zachariah Hickman.
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Can you add slip to dry greenware. Thanks
I have only added it up to just before leather hard.
Ho w do you cut your sponges?
I melt them with a soldering iron, outside.
Do you sell your pottery art? x
Why don't you let us see the finished product ? Would really like to see all the colors you put into it
He’s got to dry and fire them, look out for kiln videos
I'm pretty sure the first rule of stenciling is: you do not talk about stenciling 😁