I love how you trim right side up first. I can see how you touch the inside of the piece and get reacquainted with the thickness and the possibilities of the final form. I was told to go straight to trimming the bottom but that often means I trim less than I should and in a curve that doesn't quite follow the internal one of the piece, so if you don't mind, I'm going to copy you! I also loved the different angles you used to film the throwing, it kept it interesting and I felt like I was learning something each time. Last thing! It's incredible how the addition of the little vertical lines tricks the brain into seeing faces on what is a perfectly minimal vase shape. It reminds me of the beginning of a sketch, the line where the nose would be, the viewer's imagination does the rest. Anyway, as always, thanks so much for sharing!
I liked the “Bicone” shape the most but when you added the linear markings I just Love them all. And I like that some of the marking doesn’t go all the way down. Well done!
Where can i get a tool like the one you use to trim the bottom when the pot is on the wheel? It looks like a long piece of metal yhat comes to a point on a 90 deg. Angle.
I hope you see this this is very important to me. Is this your own blend of Clay did you come up with this clay body? It doesn't appear to have much if any Grog at all. I hate Grog and clay I would rather work with clay without grog and work with it within its limitations then have grog at all. Right now I'm using a little known recipe of 50% red art play and now that I'm trying to remember I can't it's 50% of a high fire brick clay perhaps Hawthorne I can't remember and now I'm embarrassed at any rate I've added 2.5% Grog and it's just terrible luckily I only made a very small batch. I was wondering if there was any red clay that you would recommend that are currently on the market and if not you have a clay recipe for clay bodies that you might want to pass along if it is in the trade secret
