A couple of weeks ago I re-wrote my glaze book. It was a mess with glaze spills and oxides. Not to mention all the formulas that were written in the margins. In doing so I seem to have miss labeled my slip recipes. This was twigged by a friend and fellow Potter Jordan McDonald who comment that my recipe seemed to be lacking a lot of plasticity (clay). Was he ever right. I had switched the titles of my Robin Hopper Slip with my Casting Slip. What a goof.
Now that the problem is solved I have two new buckets of slip aging. I took the opportunity yesterday, to make some more platters to try it out and make sure the slip is right this time. It was nice a creamy in the bucket and stood up well to some brush work. Hopefully these 30 inchers will last this time. My pile of reclaim only seems to be growing these days and not going down. Luckily one bucket of reclaim equals 4 platters so the pile will go down quickly once it is processed again.
I love when I can get the slip to clinging to the underside of the rim like this. I try as much as possible to have at least one on each platter. It comes from the brush pushing the slip out over the edge when I'm swirling the leaf pattern on. I think it references the wet slip really well. They end up looking dynamic like maybe they might drip off.
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