Hi, Marie here back with another fun pottery 
decorating video for you. If you're anything like me this trace and transfer technique is for 
you. I'll show you how you can create almost any design you want and place it on your pottery and 
give it some beautiful color with underglaze. So follow along as I show you how to trace, 
transfer, and underglaze your pottery. All the supplies used for this video are 
listed for you in the description below. Let's get started. Start with Tracing paper, a pencil, and a drawing of some sort. For this 
demonstration, I chose a butterfly. Place it under your Tracing paper and start 
tracing. When tracing any picture or pattern you don't want it to be too small or intricate then 
it starts to get a little tricky and hard to copy. Having the ability to transfer pictures 
like this opens up a whole new way for me to decorate. Now cut it out and put it in water. You want it to soak for a little bit 
so the paper gets saturated with water. While we're doing that I'll 
get my leather hard mug. Now that the transfer paper has been soaking 
for about five minutes place it on your leather hard pottery. Make sure 
the pencil side is on your pottery. Now use a soft rib to smooth out your transfer. What part of decorating do you find the 
most difficult? You can let me know in the comments section below along with any 
other questions or comments you may have. Now wait a few minutes before peeling off the 
transfer to make sure that the pencil mark adheres to your clay. Now that the drawing 
is on the pottery you can carve the outline with a dot tool. I like to use the 
smallest one I only need it for an outline. If you like what you see 
so far give me a thumbs up or share with a friend that's 
not good at drawing either. Now it's time to underglaze. Choose my brush and for the outline, 
I'm going to start with Black Speedball. I watered it down a little bit so it's not too thick. You want it to be 
a little on the runny side. That way the underglaze will 
flow right into the carved area. Now take a clean damp sponge and wipe the Black underglaze away. That's why I like to carve because it's much 
easier than drawing the underglaze on the outline. If there are any parts of 
the outline that you missed or didn't cover, you can just 
go over it with a fine brush. This was a lot faster than having to draw it in. Now it's time to give the butterfly some color. I'm using Orange Speedball 
for the body of the butterfly. I'm going to put Purple Speedball 
on the inside of the wings. Carving out the outline also 
helps me to stay in the lines. Now I'm going to apply Pink Speedball underglaze 
in the middle section of the butterfly"s wings. If you accidentally get underglaze on the outline you can just touch that up 
when you're done with Black underglaze. Now I'm going to put medium 
blue on the outside of the wings now I'm going to put some 
Yellow Speedball around the mug. Now let it dry to bone dry, then bisque 
fire it at cone 04 and apply clear glaze, then fire at cone 5. The butterfly turned out pretty 
good. Nice vibrant colors. Today you found out that even if you 
don't have the best drawing skills you can still put pictures and patterns on your 
Pottery with the trace and transfer technique. I hope I've helped you with 
more great decorating ideas. Please give me a thumbs up. If you want to see 
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based on feedback from viewers like you. Any and all ideas are welcome in the comments 
section below. You watching helps me to create more videos, so for more decorating ideas 
head on over to my How to Bubble Glaze video or my How to Sponge Glaze video. If you do I 
get to play with more clay. Let's stay dirty.