Video: Pottery Pitcher: Shaping the Snout

Before shaping clay spout, smooth out the top of the cylinder. Learn how to smooth out the snout when throwing a clay pitcher in this free pottery lesson from ceramics expert.

Video Transcript

So we have thrown our basic pitcher shape right here and again that can be many different shapes but I have just used this particular form to demonstrate. One of the things we want to do before we form the spout which is what we are going to do now is just smooth out this top surface here and we can do that with this little piece of leather and we just simply run it across the top edge just to smooth it out and you can see how that makes it nice and smooth. So now we want to form the spout or the pouring surface of the pitcher and for this I like to take these two fingers here and just place them on the sides of the pot like that and I place a finger on the inside and I simply crimp it like that and run my finger over it, see how that is working. These fingers here are going to create these little holes on the inside here which is going to guide the liquid to the correct pouring spout. You might also just want to run your hand over to create a little lip and so as you can see we have now thrown a pitcher that can be used for juice, water, whatever kind of liquid you want to use it for and the next step is going to be preparing this for the drying cabinet which is an often overlooked and important step and I am going to talk about that in the next segment.

Pottery Pitcher: Shaping the Snout

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