Building more complex forms from simple pinch pots (with minimal tools) 

Thanks!! Glad you enjoyed! And the frustration never really goes away. 🤣 But you do learn to let go a bit and let the clay do its bidding.

Thanks so much! I hope your class goes awesomely! 😁

Yaay! Glad ya found me, and flattered to be considered a favorite! ☺️☺️☺️

Thank you!!

Thankya! Glad you enjoyed! 😁

Thank you!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂

You are so welcome! Happy it was helpful! ☺️

Glad it was helpful! ☺️

Shanna Lane Thanks so much, Shanna!

Inge Worst That’s great! Thanks so much! ☺️

Rachel Lea Ha!! Only the most technical terms allowed in my house. 🤣 Thanks!!

Me too.

Yay! Thank you so much!! There will be more eventually. 😅

@Lori Phillips Ceramics No pressure 😅 I've had folk tell me I need to create tutorial vids for stuff I do (illustration and oil-based sculpture) but I can't think of anything I'd like less 😆 I'll just subscribe and hope 😁 Your sculpt itself is awesome too btw. I love love love nature, so seeing your botanical influences is super cool. I wanna do flora and fauna inspired pieces too (more representational, not quite as abstract). You're inspirational 🫡

Haha! Thankfully I love doing it. It’s just very time consuming to do.

Thank you!! So glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! That’s great!

So glad to hear it! ☺️

It might take a while before I can do a new one, but I’m planing to!! I have a shorter, older one I did for Clay King’s instagram page last year that I will upload soon in the meantime. So glad you enjoyed this one! ☺️

Love hearing that! I’m finally working a new new one right now, although it’s not a tutorial video. But I do want to make videos regularly going forward. 🙂

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! It’s taken me a good couple of decades to appear ‘relaxed’ 🤣🤣🤣

Merci!!! ☺️

Thanks, Jenny! Thankfully I will have the means to start making new videos by the end of October. 🙂

Yay, thanks!! So glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much! Hope to be making more soon. ☺️

Actually, I was about to make a comment that the background music was driving me nuts! But I couldn’t stop watching this wonderful video. I’ve been making pinch pots for ages, at home, but I’m sort of stuck about how to move on from there. This gives me so many ideas about combinations and textures. It’s wonderful! Thanks!

Ha!! Well I’m glad you liked it anyways! 😆

Thanks Wendy! 😁🥰

Yay! So glad to hear! 🤗

Glad you enjoyed!

@@loriphillipsceramics as a beginner is IT very hard to understand how to do it I understand that the most artist dont want to share how they do it but somerhimes its so frustrating that no one want to tell how you can make something!!. Thank you so much!! Love and kisses from the Netherlands

That’s awesome! I hope they enjoy it! I have ideas for more videos, and life keeps getting in my way, but I’m trying. 😖😝

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed!

Haha! They need encouragement sometimes. 😄

@@loriphillipsceramics So true 🤣

I’m so glad to hear that, thank you!!

Deb Samuels No problem! So glad you loved it, thank you!!

Thank you!!

Thanks so much! ☺️

Thank you!! I do intend to make more! 😁

Thank you so much! I definitely want to make more! It might be very sporadic with how often I upload new ones, haha, but I have a lot of ideas. ☺️

Thanks so much! So glad it was helpful! ☺️

Thanks so much! I think my long-time photography love helps when doing video for sure! It’s all on iPhone (and shot on a tripod) for now and edited in iMovie until I can upgrade. I shot as I worked for about three days (just shooting the parts I knew I’d need), and spent a couple days editing and writing/recording the voiceover. Only light is from the window in front of the table I worked on, which I always find to be much better than regular lights or studio lights. I keep my clay soft by keeping every part I’m not working on covered in plastic, and the parts I am working on get sprayed with my spray bottle as I work. I use Laguna’s B Mix 5. 🙂 Might be a while before I can get another posted, but I have a lot of ideas! So glad you enjoyed it!

Kelly Eefsting Thanks! I use a Laguna clay called BMix 5. 🙂

Thank you! So glad you got something out of it. 😁

Yay! Glad to help! If it’s joined well enough, and stuff enough, you can carefully lay it down right away. But I usually wrap it up well for a day or two so the moisture of the piece and the seams can even put/homogenize. 🙂

Thanks so much! So glad you’re using all this quarantine time to your advantage and making the best of it! You’ll be so glad to have a place right at home to make whenever you want/can. ☺️ And thanks for the info on the job opportunity! I have my MFA, so I’d likely be qualified, but my favorite thing to do is be able to work at home where I can be a total recluse. 🤣🤣🤣 Off and on I feel like teaching at a place like that would be great though, and I do enjoy teaching and feel like I’m good at it, so someday who knows!

Alicia van de Bor I just hate making slip, hahaha. 🤣 Always preferred making it on the piece as I went. Plus I figure if I’m scoring well enough to make a nice layer of slip as I go, I am probably scoring adequately enough.

@@loriphillipsceramics next time I'm working with clay I'm going to try the scoring tool technique. Thanks for sharing and hopefully you post more videos soon!

Alicia van de Bor Hope it works for ya!

Glad you enjoyed! Sorry for the delayed response, I was out of town for the weekend. OM4 and other ball clays are usually mixed with other clays and raw materials to add plasticity to a clay body, or sometimes added to glazes. I’m not sure how it does by itself from personal experience, but this is from Clay and Glazes for the Potter by Daniel Rhodes: “ Ball clays are impossible to use by themselves in pottery making because of their excessive shrinking, which may be as high as 20% when fired to maturity. They are usually used as an admixture to other clays to gain increased plasticity and workability.”