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What is Slip-Carving?
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Slip carving is the process
Jean uses to create all of her pieces. To show how this process
is done watch as Jean takes you through the creation of one of
her pieces...
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 First, the piece needs to be made. Let's make a bowl. Jean throws each piece by hand on the pottery wheel. |
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 Once the bowl has dried slightly to what is called a "leather hard" stage, it is flipped upside down on the wheel, re-centered and a "foot" is trimmed into the bowl. |
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 Every piece is stamped with Jean's "potter mark" and signed. |
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 The colored clay, called "slip" is then brushed on with two coats for proper thickness. |
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| The slip needs to dry for a while, then the carving process can begin. Jean hand draws an image into the bowl with a carving tool. |
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Once the image has been
drawn, she will carve away the entire background to reveal the
full design.
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 The bowl will need to dry for a few days and then be loaded into the kiln for the first firing called the "bisque" fire. |
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 After the bisque fire, the bowl is covered in clear glaze and then fired once more in the "glaze" fire. Both the bisque and glaze firings take about 10 hours to reach the correct temperature and about 15 hours to cool down. |
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 Voila!
The bowl is finished!
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