Summary: After opening up clay to form a base the next step in forming a clay toothbrush holder is to form and pull the clay up. Learn how to do this correctly from a pottery expert in this free video clip.
Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Owen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a bachelor's of Science from the University of Texas in Austin with a total of 180 hours...read more
"So now I'm ready to go ahead and pull this up. The first thing I'm going to do on this, is I'm going to go ahead and collar this in a little bit. I just got my hands very wet and I gently pushed that together. I'm going for a pretty tall cylinder here. And that's why I went ahead and did that. And as I pull, I'm going to pull in towards the center on these first couple of pulls. That's to make sure that I can get a nice tall cylinder without it starting to veer out towards the edges. So I'll take my hard rib, and I'm pushing against it with my left hand which is inside the pot and pulling up. Now once I've got it about as thin as I want, I'm ready to go ahead and create the flange where the holes for the toothbrush are going to go."
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