My ceramics teacher taught us how to make slip by using dry clay + water, but atm i don‘t have dry clay . so i was wondering if anyone knows how to make slip another way? or an easy way to dry out clay quickly :) I don‘t know what kind of clay i‘m using (I‘m a newbie) but it seems standard clay
like many celebs, they have a dog double that gets down and dirty all the time. and when it’s time to look all clean and pretty, the celeb dog comes out with his/her million dollar i-do-this-for-a-living-i-eat-filet-migno. smile.
Any animal with fur is compulsivly cleaning themselves everywhere, and sometimes dogs do that shaking thing to get anything off them. I bet, if we were able to lick our hair and body as much as they do, we wouldn't need showers as much, either.
There isnt know other way. But if you do have clay it can be any consistancy just not fired.like put in the kilm. Just put clay in a bowl, add water and mix really good ha. :)
As I learned, the key to making clay slip that works is just enough water to allow stirring it then add small amount of deflocculant like water glass (sodium silicate) or even salt, which makes the clay flow like it had a lot more water in it but the plaster does not have to put all that water out. You can start with wet clay as well as the dry powder or you can even use the sludge in your clean scrap bucket - just pour off the extra water before digging the heavier stuff out.
