Pottery painting turns so many common items into canvases. Ready to unleash your creative potential?

Over at NORA Best Life, we’ve put together some beginner painting tips from one of the art world’s top experts. You’ll learn how to use straws, stencils, or simple abstract creativity to make any pottery piece look beautiful.

You can decorate plates for a more colorful kitchen, vases to hold flowers, bowls to gift to others, and much more. This type of painting is a style unto its own — so even if you’ve painted on a traditional canvas before, this is something new and fun to try.

Be sure to share your paintings with us on Facebook and Twitter! We look forward to seeing them.