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thank you, I think using watercolour paper is a good idea because my cardboard paper does get wet in clay and bends and so on, so it's good to use more resistent materials. I also asked Gabrielle herself and she just said that she uses paper or cardbord.

you mean copy paper like ordinary paper that are used in printers? And thank you everyone for your answers, I'll try to figure it out.

I'm using this laminated cardboard paper for kids, it's not so thick but thicker then usual printing paper, of course. I guess it's not thick enough. But from what I see they are the same as Gabrielle's stencils on first two pictures, but maybe I'm wrong because her imprintings are way deeper. And especially on the last picture with white stencils - those are very thin. There is another photo of her stencils (https://www.instagram.com/p/CnkS4STruOU/?hl=ru&img_index=1)

I really like works of Gabrielle Renoir (https://www.instagram.com/gabriellelenoir/?hl=ru), she does this inprinting on clay by pushing stencils with a rolling pin. I try to do the same and it doesn't look so nice - I don't get such even edges and it's hard to put out the paper without damaging the surface. Maybe my clay is too wet. I see that they are a lot of nuances. Does this technique has a special name, are there any tutorials on it? Maybe someone has experience in it. I would appreciate any tips.

Hello. So the thing is: I want to carve circles and other shapes, like you can see on the picture (not only their borders, but insides of them). Like 1mm deep down. What instruments should I use to do it evenly? So their bottom will be flat. I have a lot of carving instruments and I am very new at this. I mean - you can cut evenly a line in one move with like a diamond core carving tools, but what instruments should you use if you want to carve wider areas like this? Thank you in advance.

Thank you. I'm doing coil building so the vase is fully made after a couple days of work, between sessions the vase is covered in many plastic bags so it almost doesn't dry, so it is not as moist as freshly made wheel thrown piece, but I don't think it's such a big problem, right?

Thank you. Yes, it is made from the same clay.

So I want to use a slip to make a certain texture on my vases using straw brushes (before the bisque fire, so I can paint on vases later on). It is a pretty thick layer. So the question is - on what stage of clay it will be the safest to do this? Bone dry or leather hard? I mean it does an additional moisture to the vase so it can lead to additional cracking, I am very afraid of this.