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Summary: Assembling the neck and body of a ceramic vase offers support for the whole piece. Learn clay assemblage techniques with expertise from a master potter in this free ceramics video.
Chris Cook received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from Southern Oregon University where he studied raku, studio ceramics, stoneware, and various firing techniques under Jim Romberg....read more
"Got this guy, some slip and you just got to be careful not to knock it off center. You just slowly kind of bring that clay down and you can go like this. Push it down and go, nasty style, but we'll go and clean that up. Just like that. Alright. And that is how you connect the neck. And you can go like that. Looking good. What we do now, cut it right off the wheel head and there. That's how you make a funky little pot that would be nearly impossible to throw if it wasn't a closed form. And what you can to when this sets up and this is able to support this, you can go by and you can cut the hole out in there so you can put a flower in there for somebody. Because they look real pretty big flowers coming out of them like this."
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