Well for a slightly different video today i thought id show. You a little more of the process when wheel throwing!
This is the beautiful Keanes midfire black clay and I’m using roughly about 2kgs of clay for this throw. The clay generally is a very easy clay to throw with a bit of plasticity to it. Making it very easy to pulls walls up.
Because of the softness of the clay you can very easily have the walls go uneven with pretty substantial thin spots. To minimise this risk just keep your elbows tight and keep good form and tension in the shoulders and forearms
A sponge and three finger technique can help spread the load across a larger part of the wall and keep the throwing nice and even too.
Now as for the design I didn’t quite know what i wanted to put on the top of the neck so i settled on a twist effect, once its in its leather hard to green ware stage ill then just clean up the lines very lightly with a sponge!
Hope you enjoyed this post!!
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Unveiling the Art of Hand Building: Crafting a Modernist Brutalist Sculpture Vase
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