Shaping a Ceramic Casserole Dish

Video Transcript

"O.k. now we want to go ahead and just take our sponge; clean it up, any kind of weird things that happened while we were pushing our clay around here. Kind of got a little funky; no big deal, kind of straighten it up; it'll all straighten out in the firing. You can even go in like that, why not. Just bend and squeeze it in because if it's going to be funky; it should be consistently funky. Alright, let's go and clean up the ends here; alright. I like that and remember I like to make this look like it's been; some kind of leather buckle and that just gives it a little more character. Something for the glaze to sit in; something to do with the back of your needle tool, o.k. Looking good, then we do this; o.k. Give it a little more class; a little more razzle dazzle and if you're going to do some thing like that just make sure it's even, alright. Just like that; there we go one funky casserole dish for momma."