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Preparation of Clay for a Vase
Centering Clay on the Pottery Wheel
Opening Clay on the Pottery Wheel
Pulling Clay to Make Vase Walls: Part 1
Pulling Clay to Make Vase Walls: Part 2
Collaring a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel
Adding Form to a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel
Trimming a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel
Cutting under a Clay Vase on the Pottery Wheel
Altering a Clay Vase off the Pottery Wheel
Making Pottery Handles
Attaching Pottery Handles
Checking the Consistency of a Clay Vase
Summary: You can shape a vase even after you have removed it from the pottery wheel. Watch how to alter a clay vase off the pottery wheel in this free 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
"Alright so, I mean this is perfectly fine vase but it could be better. So I could stick my hand down there and pull up some lines but I'm not really feeling that; I'm going to use this and I'm going to just take it down here and I'll do it there so you can see, I'm going to take it down there and I'm going to pull it up like this; o.k. And then I'm going to go over to the other side; I'm going to do the same thing no problem just don't go threw the clay, pull it up like this. And even that looks cooler than it did before, and you know what? I was going to go with four but I like the way that this is looking here with what I'm going to do because we're going to put some, some funny little handles on here and I think with the way that it looks here; it looks pretty good. You want to take a sponge; clean up these edges here that got messed up from my tool, o.k. You want everything to deliberate and not like there was a mistake. So from here we can figure out what type of little handles will look good on there and we'll just slap them on."
eHow Article: Altering a Clay Vase off the Pottery Wheel
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