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Throwing challenge no 25! Easy peasy 😜 #pottery #wheelthrowing
leisa.leaf22,900,000 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
One of the most important skills you can develop in wheel throwing is knowing how to fix a pot that’s going wrong. Most people think of throwing as just memorising a sequence of steps.. But fundamentally, it’s clay displacement & redistribution. It's just physics at the end of the day.. You’re constantly moving clay through friction, gravity, compression, tension, the rotation of the wheel etc. There’s a lot happening in throwing, but I want to emphasize two things that go hand in hand: friction and feedback. 💧 Friction: Water acts as a lubricant, which is why we need it. But more water doesn’t always mean better/easier throwing.. It changes the quality of information you get. You need enough lubrication to work the surface, but not so much that your hands lose the ability to feel what the clay is doing underneath them. 👐🏼 Feedback: Your hands aren’t just applying force, they’re reading, feeling the clay through resistance. With less water, you can feel the clay dragging, sliding, and shifting underneath your fingers much more clearly. Sensitivity to this drag is one of the most important skills to develop. This is why it’s important to learn how to pull without a sponge. You don’t have to do it all the time, but developing that ability makes a big difference in how clearly you can feel the clay. That tactile feedback is crucial to be one with the clay 🫳🏼 In this case, I barely added any water because I needed that friction in order to feel the drag so I could move the material back where it belonged. If you only know how to make a form, you’re learning a sequence of movements. Buuut.. if you know how to fix a form.. you’re learning why those movements work. :) So if a pot collapses but is salvageable, don’t scrap it immediately. Stretch it. Compress it. Try to see how the clay responds. You might not make something nice, but you’ll start seeing clay less as a 1 solid blob and more as a group of billions of tiny particles responding to the forces around them. Eventually, that understanding becomes subconscious, and you start feeling what you can get away with. Sometimes the failed pot is the best teacher :)) . . . . . #howto #pottery #clay #wheelthrowing
Eric Thuta266,300 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
#wheelthrowing Victorian frilly #flowerpots from locally dug #terracotta #clay #pottery
Gabriel Nichols Official503,100 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
#wheelthrowing #flowerpots pans or half pans as we call them from our #wildclay #pottery #ceramics
Gabriel Nichols Official26,200 просмотров • 9 дней назад
#wheelthrowing traditional #flowerpots with our #wildclay #pottery
Gabriel Nichols Official454,500 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
the full process in 30 seconds 🩵 #ceramics #pottery #wheelthrowing
sofia289,900 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
slow and steady for this one! #pottery #potterytiktok #ceramics #wheelthrowing #potterywheel
haylmade110,200 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
This is what happens when you try something new without doing any research first… usually after every large pottery drop I like to take some time experiment with new clays and techniques. This is where I’ve found most of my style and favorite work but it’s not without a couple disasters along the way. . #wheelthrowing #potterylife #experimentalart #artmistakes #ceramicartist
Dan Mack31,900 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
