Throwing a Clay Flower Pot on the Pottery Wheel

Video Transcript

"O.k. so now we're at this point here and we want to make sure that since this is the bottom is going to be trimmed round, you want it as skinny as possible like that, alright. So this is where my finger goes down to so this is going to be our bottom right there. You want to load up your sponge and give it a little water if you feel any that needs to be down in there. We want to grab as much clay as we can from the bottom and just start throwing it up like that. Nice, let it throw out a little bit, alright. Come in. Compress the top here like that; you want to go down, I'm going to give it a little bit more water. I'm going to go in for another pull down on the bottom here but at this time when we pull we're going to start putting some shape into it."