Techniques Using Slips Paperback – May 25, 2010

there was much practical and useful advice!

Very nice book, lots of information and loaded with quality photos. Not very much on applying heavy texture though which is what I was looking for. Still, there is some information that's valuable to me as a sculptor.

I am a hobbiest and am stuck with an electric kiln, and love the ceramic glazes that come out of reduction kilns. I was hoping this book would get me inspired to create surface interest using slips in oxidation, but it didn't. If I had seen this on the shelf at a bookstore, I would have passed on it.I would have been less dissappointed if there was a gallery section of the book. I think this is one of the few ceramic books that I have bought that doesn't have a gallery section. Instead there are a few images from each of the artists featured.

The descriptions of the ways a potter can use slip to enhance a piece are brief but adequate. Gives you lots of ideas to try without a large investment or elaborate set up. Would recommend for someone wanting to enlarge their ability to decorate ceramic pieces without going glaze crazy.

Always good to have another reference book in your library. Not really every information in it, but no regret to have this item. Good to have a book explains someone actually using clay slip their work with photos. but do not expect too much.

Nice addition to the library of any potter or student. Contains a lot of good information about both new and old methods of decorating with slips.

good book