Summary: Pull clay to edge of the bat when throwing a pottery bowl. Find out how to attach clay the pottery wheel bat 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. Get your sponge nice and clean again. Straighten it up. There we go. I'm going to keep pulling out, pulling clay from the center from where we established is the bottom. And we're just pulling it out towards the edge of the bat. Alright? Here we go. This is going to be a major pull like that. What I'm doing is pulling with my fingers and you want to look at them bowls to see how big this bowl needs to be to accommodate his friends over here. I am going to go all the way out to the edge of the wheel head. Alright? Just like that. I'm going to straighten it up because I don't want it flaring out right now. I'll make it look like a bowl when it's ready to look like a bowl. Alright? So there, we have that."