Trimming a Foot of Clay Pottery Bowls: Part 2 by Expert Village

The tools that I'm mainly using is two; I use a loop tool and a straight tool. I also use a little cover just anything from a little jam jar or whatever and I put that cover right down on the center and I put my finger on that cover and that helps to... Read More »

Opening Clay to Make Large Pottery Bowls by Expert Village

Now we are going to continue to make that opening that I started with the palm of my hand. I'm going to back into and use my fingers like I do on the small bowl and I'm going to go back and forth to compress the clay. Even though it was compressed a... Read More »

Creating the Rim of Large Clay Pottery Bowls by Expert Village

So I just pulled up the edge, pulled up the bowl, I shaped the bowl. I want to talk a little bit more about these edges I started talking about how I was putting a curve here so that you can get your finger or hand while you are serving underneath. But... Read More »

Clay Pottery Pulling Tips by Expert Village

So the first thing we want to do is open this pot up by taking your left forefinger and pushing down and making a well in the center of this pot and pulling towards your left thumb and your right hand is going to be stabilizing the edge and compressing... Read More »

Shaping Large Clay Pottery Bowls by Expert Village

We are going to be shaping the bowl right now and if you notice what I did I after I had pulled it I put my sponge on top of here and I around this edge. I'm leaving this edge very thick because the actually shaping of the bowl is going to be stretching... Read More »