Ceramic Bowls: Pulling Up the Walls

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Part of the video series: Making Ceramic Bowls

Summary: Use a sponge to pull clay up through the walls when making ceramic bowls. Learn to pull clay through the walls when throwing a bowl from an artist in this free ceramics and pottery video.

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By Max Koetter
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Max Koetter is a multi talented artist currently living in northwest America. Koetter grew up in London, England where he learned how to use the ceramic wheel at an early age. He...read more

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"Okay so now we have opened the vessel here the form and we're ready to start raising the walls of this salad bowl. And we want a lot of water on our hands so that the clay doesn't grab. You don't want the clay to grab your hands, however you don't want to get the clay overly wet because then it will get all soggy on you and then it will lose shape and collapse the form. The general process is you are drawing clay from the bottom of the pot and you are pulling it up through the walls. You can see it kind of spirals up like that and we'll keep doing this until we have gotten clay up into the walls of our bowl. Now you can see that I'm opening the shape up as I'm going too because we are going to make a bowl out of this. If I were making a jar or something like that I would be bringing it straight up but there we have brought up the walls of the pot and now I am ready to shape the pot and we're going to do that next."