Summary: Touch up a water bowl and candlestick holder piece by cleaning up the edges with a potter's knife. Learn how to touch up a water bowl and candlestick combo with tips from a master potter 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
"Okay, so I'm going to take my large needle, my large potter's knife and start blending that roughly into my bowl here. I'm not getting too rough with it but I'm definitely hammering it down in there. But when I threw these guys, I left little flanges on them that really blend in there. It makes it nice and easy to blend. Alright. So that's done. I got this small piece of manufactured sponge. This works great for getting in those cracks, those small cracks. Right there. Alright. Like that. These guys really went in there well enough to where there's not much clean up to do. Get in there. Alright. There we go. Just like that. Maybe use this. Clean up any of those little marks we may have made. Alright. Looking good. And if you want, you can just bend them over. Try to make them a little weird if you want. That one's already strange enough. There. Alright. Just a little bit more clean up. Alright and you want to grab your wire. Get right down to the wheel...to the bat and this is tricky and then turn the wheel on just a little bit and move it off to the left. Okay. Now, what we have here, let me get that off, here we go. We've got bowl, with candlestick holders. Fill this full of water, flowers, whatnot. Water, and flowers, and candles over here and it's really nice. Glaze it up real pretty and they're just to die for."
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