Video: Ceramic Bowls: Finishing the Shape

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Take excess water out of a ceramic bowl when finishing the shape. Learn how finish shaping a bowl from clay from an artist in this free ceramics and pottery video.

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O.k. so now we've thrown the basic form; we've duplicated it here and we're just going to double check our measurements, and you can see that; that is right about this so we're still on, we're going to check the height on this one and you can see actually that we're just about on right there; it's not bad at all. If it was a little bit high you'd want to take a pin tool or something; let it dry out a little bit, mark it; mark it with your tool so you go boop, just give it a mark and then cut this off; lower this pin tool or you just shave it off or you can just take the a sham and just, and just press it down into it depending on how much you have; a little tiny bit you'd probably just press the clay back into the form. Now we're going to check the width here and see what we're doing here, and again we have; a little bit off, you see that it's just a little bit so we're going to have to pull the; the walls out just a touch. So we're going to ahead and take our ribs here and just open the pot just a little bit more, and just push out; you kind of draw it all the way threw the pot, pull it out just slightly; see the stretch in the clay over the, over the rib and now we check that; and you can see we're just about there. Just check the shape; you want to kind of want to get down and look at the shape of this one, the shape of that one; they're pretty close. Again ceramics is one of those things that you, you like to have a; a certain distinctness to each individual pot and so a little variation isn't, isn't a bad thing. And finally we're just going to do what we did on that one; we're going to smooth down the top here and then take the water out of the inside, and cut it off with the wire tool here so let's just go ahead and do that. Smooth out the top like that; take the water, the excess water out of the inside and then just run the wire under it like we did last time. And now we're ready to set those over on the drying racks and they're ready to be trimmed.

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Ceramic Bowls: Finishing the Shape

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