Video: Ceramic Bowls: Shaping the Form

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When shaping ceramic bowls, a piece of leather is useful for making it smooth. Learn to shape the form of a bowl when throwing a bowl from an artist in this free ceramics and pottery video.

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Now we have brought up the walls of what is going to be our salad bowl and we are ready to shape the walls now into the form of the bowl the way we want it. Of course this varies and you're going to want to shape it and do different things with bowls but we are going to do just a basic rounded shape on this one. Now what I like to do and it is quite an individual taste thing but I like to use ribs when I am throwing these kinds of things. And some people like to shape them with their hands but I find with a rib if you put it on the inside, and use this one on the outside, you are able to shape the form very quickly. And I'm going to show you how that works, pulling out the edge of the bowl and now you can see we are starting to get a nice little shape here. Get down inside and just let one rib got right over the other one and what this allows you to do is really stretch the clay out and get it thinner than you would if you were just using your fingers. Let's give it one more swipe and then we're going to call it good. Okay now see how it kind of jiggles around on you a little bit but it's okay because once you take your thing off it is going to be nice and smooth. Now we've got a nice rounded shape here and we're going to just smooth out the top here with that piece of leather. There we go. So now we have one bowl and we're going to talk next about how to measure this bowl in order to make the second bowl just like it or close to it and we'll be talking about that next.

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Ceramic Bowls: Shaping the Form

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