Ceramic Bowls: Throwing the Bowl

Video Transcript

"O.k. so now we've thrown our first; our first bowl, we've measured it and we're going to repeat that process with this second one. Center it up; pushing the clay up and then pushing back down, and now you can see it's on center it doesn't move around; it isn't tic tacking the finger, chop off a little bit of excess on the bottom; ready to open the form. Your thumbs push down; some water, open it up; start lifting the walls. Pulling the clay up from the base and bring it up through the wall of the pot; so you bring the clay all the way up through it. O.k. so now we've raised the walls; we're going to take our ribs and shape the bowl, you just start pulling the clay out stretching it; that's why we leave some clay in there. What I find with this technique is you're able to make very thin bowls; delicate bowls, even if it gets a little bit off center it doesn't matter because ultimately you won't notice; in fact I like bowls that have a little character to them. O.k. now we got the basic form of the bowl set up and we're going to now measure it up, and make the final adjustments to it to make it just like the one next to it or close to it; we're going to do that next."