Pottery Salsa Bowl: Compressing the Clay

Video Transcript

"Alright, now that we've got the amount of clay that we want, we just want to compress, compress, compress. Grab the sponge, compress the top, and then squeeze, and now look, like I was talking about. You don't know what you're going to find in your clay. And this is a rock or something, which was hitting my finger, so you can get that out of the clay, and that doesn't mean that piece is destroyed, just go back over where that thing was. You can even put more clay in there to get rid of that hole, but, smooth it out like that. Alright, we're back on track. You're just going to go and pull it out, pull it up, grab some more clay from the bottom, do the same thing, just like that. And now we're set for our ribbing."