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Ceramic Bowls: Entering the Clay

Entering and opening clay for ceramic bowls can be done with the thumbs. Learn to enter clay when throwing a bowl from an artist in this free ceramics and pottery video.

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Okay, so next we are going to open or open the form to these salad bowls and a lot of people have different methods of doing this. Some people like to go in with their fingers. I personally like to secure my thumbs and enter the pot through the middle and you're just going to kind of feel it. You are going to feel where the center of the pot is. It is going to feel right and then you are going to push in. Again keeping your arm secured on your body so that any sort of sway from the pot is going to be taken in there. Then you want it to kind of claw. This is called the claw and what I am doing is taking my fingers and drawing the clay towards me. O'kay now I have opened my form and I am going to smooth out the base the bottom of it inside the pot and I'm ready to start raising the walls and we're going to do that in the next segment coming right up.

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Ceramic Bowls: Entering the Clay

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