Summary: Keep clay bowl centered during pottery throwing process. Learn how to center a large clay bowl in this free pottery lesson from a ceramics expert.
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. Now we got it all marked out right? So just watch it. Come to me, come. See? No big deal. I mean you could make a big process out of that, read a few books, or whatever you got to do but that's real easy. That's all you have to do. Now we want to go making the bowl. Now that the bowl. Let's go ahead and clean up this wheel head a little bit. Got a lot of goo on it from those bowls. So we want to center this up. Remember it's going to be a flat, flat bowl. Not going to be a bowl bowl. Going to be a salsa bowl. So you want to make it nice and flat. Alright? So from here you can karate chop that thing. Like that. Come down on it. Or maybe like a pro wrestler, just slam it, bring it out. All the while your fingers are feeling where there might be any inconsistency. Just center it up, like that."
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