How to decorate a slab bowl with slip decoration

This video covers a few different aspects of making with clay. It starts with how to use a bowl you have at home as a mould to make a slab built bowl. It then looks at two different slip decoration methods: sgraffito and slip trailing. Both methods use coloured decorating slip on leather hard clay (before it s completely dry and goes in the kiln). Sgraffito is where you put a layer of coloured slip on the surface then scratch through to the clay beneath to make a pattern or drawing. Slip trailing is exactly as it sounds, trailing slip across the surface using something like a squeezy bottle, a bit like piping icing. Both are great decorative techniques to put colour on your clay before it goes in a kiln.