Opening Clay on the Wheel to Make Pottery Mugs

Video Transcript

"Okay, now that we're where we want, we got that thing centered. What we want to do is collect all this. This is what I like to throw with, like I don't know more potters should do it but. Without throwing, it's without throwing with the water. It's just clay, slip. So now we got that, we're going to go in and we're going to do a plunge. Right now I'm taking my thumbs and I'm plunging down to the bottom in relation with my pinkies that are down on the bottom and once again I'm plunging down and I'm going to start spreading it out to create the walls and the bottom of the piece. Okay so I'm pretty comfortable with the bottom of this mug. And see by messing around with it it's starting to already go like that. So here we go. I'm taking the slip on my hands and I'm going to throw it in. So that's it right there."