Just on Christmas Eve too! 🎄🤗
To begin crafting your clay vessel, place 1300 grams of clay on the wheelhead. Initiate the coning and centring process meticulously, ensuring the clay is perfectly centred before progressing to shaping the base using your thumbs.
Next, bring up the walls with a throwing sponge, maintaining a consistent thickness. Execute the wall-pulling method gradually, with control, to achieve uniformity in your vessel’s walls.
While pulling up the walls, adopt a slow and continuous approach to enhance consistency in the height and form. Employing inward pressure on the walls, akin to centring, not only aids in shaping the vase but also contributes to increased height.
Trim the top and side of the base before advancing to exterior decoration using a wooden tool. Creating impressions on the vase’s surface adds a distinctive touch and accentuates texture once glazed.
Proceed to trim the base and incorporate a foot ring. As your pottery dries, place it beneath a plastic bag to ensure even drying.
Hope you enjoyed this little video and as always Happy Potting!!! 🥳🥳
Making This Carved Vase With Poked Holes
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas 🎄🤗
Today I’m working on a experimental pot with keans dark matter clay, this clay is a heavily grogged clay that has a lot of strength to walls thrown with it (due to the grog)
This helped especially when it come to carving and cutting holes into the side of the vase. It was great to experiment with the clay and see what design I could come up with on the whim
When it comes to carving the footring afterwards, I found it quite useful to finish the surface off with your hands before storing it for drying, due to the roughness of the clay, it ended being a extremely rough footring
Using my fingers and hands helped give the vase a very smooth and finished look, this can be achieved with any clay that has a lot of grog in it. So hopefully that helps!!
Until then have a great day and hope you’re making your own creations over the holidays!! Happy Potting 🤗🥳🥳
