slip

Examples of slip in the following topics:

• Ceramics

  • Slip casting involves pouring a liquid clay, called slip, into a highly absorbent plaster mold.
  • The water in the slip is drawn out, leaving an inside layer of solid clay.
  • When this is thick enough, the excess slip can be removed from the mould.
  • This is because there is a higher concentration of ceramic raw materials with little additives in slip casting.
  • Parts of hand-built vessels are often joined together with the aid of slip.

• Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

  • Instead of painting a figure with black slip and using a burin to scrape away the slip to create details, red-figure painting has the background painted black and the figures left the red color of the terra cotta.
  • Black slip was painted with a brush to add detail.
  • The black slip could also be diluted with water to create shades for modeling bodies or clothing.
  • Diluted clay slip created a range of shades to color his figures, making them appear energetic and present in three-dimensional space.

• Etruscan Ceramics

  • As on some early Attic vases, this was achieved by covering the whole vase body in black shiny slip, then adding figures on top, using paints that would oxidize into red or white during firing.
  • In true red-figure, the red areas were left free of slip.

• Vase Painting in the Orientalizing Period

  • The black color came from a slip painted onto the vessel, after which incised lines were drawn on to outline and detail the figures.

• Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • The technique is based on the use of paints, instead of slip, to create polychrome vessels.
  • The vessels were first coated in a white slip before various colors of paint were added.

• Ceramics in Early South America

  • The shift from post-fire resin painting to pre-fire slip painting marked the end of Paracas-style pottery and the beginning of Nazca-style pottery.

• Sculpture of the Nok

  • After some drying, the sculptures were covered with slip and polished to produce a smooth, glossy surface.

• Woodlands in the East

  • Some were slipped or brushed with red ochre.

• Sculpture in the Hellenistic Period

  • It has been suggested that one arm clutched at her slipping drapery while the other arm held out an apple, an allusion to the Judgment of Paris and the abduction of Helen.