Surface Decoration on Pinch Pots


Surface decoration is one of the most important part of hand building technique. With few simple tips and tricks of surface decoration, you can bring magic to your simple piece of pottery. There are variety of surface decoration techniques, such as carving, slip decoration, coil decoration, glazing, etc. You can choose any or a combination of these techniques to create a masterpiece for yourself.

In surface decoration, it is very important to understand the texture of clay - hardness and softness of clay. For some techniques, you require leather hard clay, while for others you need soft or wet clay. And for glazing, you need sun dried or bisque fired pottery pieces.  It all depends on the work you are doing. And as you grow as a potter and start getting comfortable handling clay, you will be able to judge your clay better.

Currently, I’m working on a large wall installation, which will have variety of pinch pots of different shapes, sizes, and surface decoration – slip decoration, stamp, carving, etc. Will showcase the same on this blog soon!! till then....Happy Claying!!

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