Adding Form to a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel

Video Transcript

"Alright so what you want to do is make sure you're inside walls nice and lubed; you don't catch on any of the dry spots. What I do is just press, I press the sponge on top of my hand and it runs down fingers and then I find the spots that need to get lubed; and I hit them up, alright. With that I'll grab some more clay right there and then I'll stop; and I'll grab this guy, ok. This is when you go slow like this; start shaping your vase. We're going to make a really simple form. I found that when it comes to flower vases the simpler the form the more beautiful the flowers in the pot works together, ok. There's that; that's as much form as I want to put into that belly, 10 years ago I wouldn't have stopped right there because I'd think that that was too simple and not pretty enough but I think it's just right and then there's a little bit of the going on like that. But all I'm doing is pressing my rib in there, alright. Clean up the top; I like, for whatever reason I like my rims on my pots to be like that; you can do whatever you want but I like them like that, like that. Now we've got out form in there."