You make nice video's Sarah, but way too fast. I know these video's are always sped up, which is fine, but this is way too fast. Please slow it down a little. Could you give some info on the glazes you are using too? thanks and keep posting
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback too. For this piece I used Midnight Blue on the exterior, Ironstone over Midnight Blue on the Interior, and dripped Seaweed Green on Textured Turquoise over Midnight Blue for the smaller bowl. All of the glazes are from Amaco.
Thank you so much for sharing! It turned out beautiful with a perfect shape, like a little sweet house with a cute roof 😍😍! And congratulation on the firing too! We know how difficult is it…🤪 What kind of glaze did you use?
What a great piece! Thanks for sharing….and inspiring ❤ question…did you put a small air hole in the piece before letting it dry down to leather hard/trimming stage? I’m always on the fence about not adding the hole, but haven’t tried it.
I sure appreciate you sharing your skill and technique. I like the shape you made. I appreciate you going from start to finish. I am making these for grandkids for Christmas. I have four done so far, but just the closing of the form. I am not sure yet if I like the forms I have done. I will have to double check on Monday when I go back into the studio I go to. I will need to make 30 to get 22. You do such beautiful work!
Of course! Not that I can tell from using it. I was mainly trying to thin out the walls of the lid so that it could sit over the raised side of the lip which keeps it in place. It did not need to be very exact and centered for that to happen.
sara excellent demo, video, and your technique is great , Thanks for sharing I have a question how do you keep the top and bottom from sticking or do you fire them separately....
Thank you! Sometimes I fire jars together and just leave the area that they touch unglazed. For this piece though, I fired them separately and just left the bottom rim of the lid that touched the kiln shelf unglazed.
NIce save. I'm getting the impression your wheel generally spins too fast (I know the video is sped up), and you may be raising your hands too slowly. Have you looked at the distance between the pull rings? They should be about half your finger width apart.
As far as I can see, you want to slow down the wheel substantially, especially when throwing wide things. It seems to be 4x normal speed, but even at quarter playback speed the wheel still looks very fast. There's also seems to be a problem with your finger position, the inside finger should be kept higher than the outside fingers. I'm pretty sure the main problem is the speed, but if you look closely you can see a twist starting to form around the lower third during the second pull due to drag from a dry spot. That's where it fails.
