My version of slip trailing

These bowls are so fun to make. These large bowls 20-27 inches across are like a huge blank canvas, they beg to be decorated.  The bowls below are decorated using slip trailing techniques.  Slip is about 50% clay 50% water.  I add between 1% and 5% mason stain (which come in a variety of colors) to achieve the desired color affect.  The dots on these two bowls were hand piped using a cake decorating bag and various tips.  You can feel the dots, which adds and interesting texture and depth to the finished piece.

 I try to keep a professional portfolio of my work, unfortunately in a professional picture you can't tell the size of the piece.  I try to include the size as often as I can but... I still get people asking how big an object "really" is.  I meditated on this for a while and I realized that I have very few pictures of my pottery in a real life setting.  I am going to try to remedy this in the future.  My brother's an amazing carpenter.  I described the shelving I wanted for Swiss Day's from a partial picture a quick sketch and a verbal description, and two weeks later I had the exact shelves I had seen in my head.  As we are no longer in festival season so I'm going to put the shelves in my living room as display shelving.  My hope is that I will be able to take some pictures of my pieces on display to better explain sizing.