Decorating Techniques for Your Pottery
For a beginner to the art, selecting decorating techniques for your pottery is a easy task simply because experience in this area is lacking. For those more knowledgeable the decoration process can be a mind-numbing job 
because they are literally dozens of techniques available to choose from, and each project may have many options that fit well with a specific piece.
One of the best decorating techniques for your pottery is to not only utilize color, but to use it to aid in presenting the aesthetics of your creation. Color can add depth, highlight shapes and generally give otherwise pedestrian pottery “pop”. In other words, a bird made from pottery is just a bird but a bird that utilizes 10 colors or more perfectly makes heads turn.
Other decorating techniques for your pottery include stenciling, stamping and burnishing to name but a few. Stencils can be made from anything from pictures in newspapers to those in old books, and these can really help in creating a diverse and attractive theme in your pottery. Stamping pottery when wet can provide significant texture and best of all what can be used as a stamp is only limited by your imagination. The process of burnishing is as old as the art of making pottery itself, is easy to master and gives pottery a soft and classic sheen that screams of creativity.
Regardless of individual skill level, experimentation is the key to decorating pottery. Each success and failure will provide a gem of wisdom to be used at a later time.
