Video: Forming a Clay Vase

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After centering clay the next step is to begin to pull up the walls of your project to begin creating the shape of your vase. Learn about clay forming tips that you will need from a pottery expert in this free video clip.

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- Clay Vase Forming Tips

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So now we can go ahead and pull this up. Again, take the right thumb underneath. Get yourself an undercut. And now I'm using my right middle finger and I'm pushing just underneath my left hand, so that the clay is in between. And it brings a nice ring of clay up with my fingers. And then go back down and do it again, but this time with the rib. That gives you a little bit more compression. Makes you able, makes it able to thin it out a little bit more. Now, I don't know if you can see the wobble, but there's a little bit of torque right there at the bottom. So I'm just going to go back and compress that from the inside and the outside to remove that torque before I go in for my final pull here. I'm sponging the water out from the bottom and then just squeezing a little bit down my finger, which is on the inside of the wall, so there's just a small amount in there to lubricate it. Now for my final pull, I'm just going to give a little bit of shape to this. But I've left some thickness here at the rim. I'm just going to smooth out those areas that look a little bit torqued. So now, what we're going to do is I'm going to go ahead and torch the body of this pot so that it gets firm before I pull this rim out in order to make that detail.

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Forming a Clay Vase

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