Throwing a Tea Bowl on the Potter's Wheel

Video Transcript

"Alright so this is; this, this; you don't pay much attention to this, you just go in fast; hard, pull it; pull it out, alright. Got the big pull; got your compression on the bottom and with these two bodies and the bottom of these things cha no yu bodies and the bottom of these things, man you want to go real big just like rip it out; it's just ripped. Get in there, nice and wet; rip it up o.k., rip it down; bring it in. Then we take this, bring it to the lip and rip it down. Put it on; see where my foot is, you can see the clay; you can see the fluidity in the clay. I already know what this is going to look like when I'm done with it but on the wheel it doesn't look as nice. Well it does to me but I'm going to take all that off and that off; once again I'm leaving all that clay down there because I'm going to trim it off in the end. Get in there, really trim it up down there. And you can go in and we do some line work; this, square it up; let's go square. Fix her up down there; come in, don't worry about cleaning your hands or anything like that; pick it up a little bit there. There's a chudo mia, a Japanese teacup. Now we'll go back tomorrow; the following day, turn it upside down and trim a really big foot in this guy; we're going to trim a lot of this around. And once that foot's in there you'll see all the contours on the bottom will come in and beautiful. And you fire it in some wood for a couple weeks in a Origami."