Okay, so now that we've covered our cylinders and our basic shaping of coloring and belling, let's put it into practice. Well just take a few seconds and just throw a couple example cups off this lump of clay here, just to show you that technique of Belene and color and how you can really use that to begin to fine tune your vessels and then we'll move into trimming. So it's gonna take a small piece of clay here off this hump and use it to throw a cup. We'll throw a couple different sizes of cup just to give you a general idea of some of the possibilities with those very simple movements of either color and then we're gently pushing out from the inside. We will start with a nice round more of a tea bowl type shape here. I simply have a small piece of wet clay throwing it up I can begin to fine tune this.

Lifting that Claire for those walls. Now we're gonna come back in and belly this out. Make a nice kind of round little sipping glass right here with a nice little ice cream bowl, red wine glass. It's just a little bit of that sense of volume right there. Just by rounding and bailing it out just a little bit, just to be comfortable to the touch and comfortable to use. What is to a couple different pieces here.

Quick example we talked about in the previous video how we reference the vessel Because in reference to the human body and how close that connection is between the human body because these are objects that we're using, we're pressing with our hands, we're sliding them into the mouth. Because this is a very intimate connection, maybe we'll, we'll make a little cup here that reflects that has a little bit of that Hourglass OR that human reference to the form, which always then creates a nice little undercut for the hands or good jumping off place for a handle. But again, everything starts off stems from that initial cylinder shape. So control, control pose, nice tight rim, even wall thickness. I want to come back in and get some shape. compressing in there, see that nice hourglass shape.

Exactly be nice and comfortable to hold and to use. You need to take that waistline and a little bit more. Come back and compress it in or maybe you want a little more of a shoulder Always compressed it back out. But again, make sure you brace the outside walls as you're pushing out, so that you don't knock your piece off center. All these slight hand movements are gonna allow you to begin to start to personalize your vessels and move away from that standard craft vessel and more to the, the one of a kind art vessel, we are making these aesthetic choices of what your intent is here, you can see how that could feel very comfortable just with a hand right, there could be a nice jumping off spot or a handle here with that undercut. One of the wonderful things about the handmade objects is how you are able to manipulate that use of the hand of the user, the user of the object, you know, manipulate or entice them to use it a certain way where they're going to put their hand how they're gonna place it.

Even just the slightest undercut can make a nice little kick. Catch for the finger and make that object more fun to use make it more of a tactile experience. Let's give this one a little bit of a spiral effect, which again can create that nice finger catch someone's a built in handle on the vessel itself. Again, focus on those cylinders control control. Like my topic, learn out a little more than I'd like. So I'm going to come back in here, colored in a little bit.

We can contact evenly all the way around the piece, my hands upward. A little more height, and then we'll fine tune our shape. Okay, so now we have our basic shape. Let's come in and give it a little spiral personalize the shape a little bit. We'll talk about these techniques as we move through these sections. Pulling up the walls.

Essentially we're keeping our fingertips fingertip to fingertip pinching that clay and lifting it up. For this next move, I'm simply going to offset my fingers. Push in and out and lift it up. See how comfortable that looks like that'd be to use be a lot of fun to use. We'll just do a couple more and then we'll move on to trimming. As we know, we're selling some coloring.

Make a nice coffee cup here. center it up that wishing that cone, point our walls up. Control control everything is in nice and tight. started building out the bottom here a little bit in a nice sense of volume. Nice large cup of coffee. Take it into our drinking fine tuner shape a little bit here.

You can see how that could be a nice fun spot for a handle to jump off of coming off here. Give it a little belly button All right, let's do one more. Do a larger glass Stein type shape here. Again thinking about the nature of the clay, the fluidity of the material. That's one thing that always intrigues me about the ceramics is the fluidity of the material. I'm trying to capture that, that softness to it.

And then the juxtaposition of that softness. Then once it's fired and reaches more of that stone like quality. It looks soft. But it's hard like that stone. It's watertight. It's vitrified.

Now Chris, can be interesting. Feel within the Peace Corps to give one more pool here, a nice little tall drinking vessel here. Again, let's try to introduce a little bit of that softness, reference that fluidity of the material that we're working with here because again, that is one of the wonderful things about it. There we go. And again, that's going to be a great piece for a handle or buy a tumbler by itself. Nice little finger cash there to hold it and clean up the bottom and prepare this piece to be trimmed.

Our proper use of your wooden knife is going to make this next step of trimming These vessels much easier. It'll give you that perfect center dream van to recenter the vessels to Alright, let's move on and talk about trimming