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Summary: A ceramic Jardiniere, thrown on the pottery wheel, can be shaped after removing it from the wheel. See how to shape a Jardiniere after you have thrown it on the potter's wheel 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
"So now that we have got it up here I think it would be fun to alter this rim a little bit and how you do that or how I like to do that is kind of like how we were throwing, or not throwing but pulling those handles, you just pull the rim out like that, pull it out there. We'll do, pull it out there and we'll give it this motion that it didn't have a few seconds ago, and then pull it out there and then you can take your manufactured, I like to use a manufactured sponge because it is nice and even and stuff. My throwing sponges or my natural sponges have all these little things here and they don't make very good for clean up so I just go ahead and go around it like this and now it has some motion like that and it is even better now."