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Ceramics & Pottery: Centering the Clay
Ceramics & Pottery: Opening the Clay
Ceramics & Pottery: Forming a Bowl
Ceramics & Pottery: Removing Pots From the Wheel
Ceramics & Pottery: Rolling Clay
Ceramics & Pottery: Forming Shapes
Ceramics & Pottery: Attaching Coil Bottom
Ceramics & Pottery: How to Finish the Slab Bottom of a Coil Pot
Ceramics & Pottery: Form the Slab Bottom of a Coil Pot
Ceramics & Pottery: Attaching Coils to Form a Coil Pot
Ceramics & Pottery: Beginning a Pinch Pot
Ceramics & Pottery: Form & Shape a Pinch Pot
Ceramics & Pottery: Forming a Pinch Pot
Ceramics & Pottery: Trimming a Coffee Mug
Ceramics & Pottery: Attaching a Coffee Mug Handle
Ceramics & Pottery: Waxing the Pot
Ceramics & Pottery: Mixing Glaze
Ceramics & Pottery: Glazing a Pot
Ceramics & Pottery: Drying Time
Finding A Good Ceramics School
Summary: How to form the shape of a pinch pot in a pottery project; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video series taught by a pottery expert.
Vincent Sansone is Director of the Ceramics department at Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, Fl. He holds a MFA in ceramic arts and teaches classes weekly at Crealde. You can find...read more
" I am making this opening larger and larger as I turn it. I start at the bottom and I move my thumb up slowly from bottom in a spiral motion all the way to the top. Since this is a hand technique, it is not going to look like it was made on a potter’s wheel; it won’t have a perfectly concentric circle. The opening will be a little bit uneven, but with practice you can make quite nice pots with this very simple uncomplicated method. You can sit in front of the TV set and make pots like this; see how the pot is getting larger. Now, I can flatten this gently so that it will sit without rocking. I can either open it up more or I can start to close it up by pushing clay up over my finger on the inside."
eHow Article: Ceramics & Pottery: Form & Shape a Pinch Pot
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