Okay, so the next shape we're going to talk about are bold, bold and open forms. Okay, in your play a role on the wheel head, check for those wedging scenes, short things nice and smooth up on your wheel head. Move it into position. Pull out that layer moisture. sinner bowl. Now with our Super Bowl, depending on the shape of bowl you're going for I'll throw two different shapes here.

If you wanted a little bit of a flatter centered ball starting off here, we're going to be have a wider form compared to our tall cylinders that we were working on before. All right, open this up. All the basics are the same. keep those elbows in tight, everything's locked in nice and tight. shooting for that quarter inch from the bottom of the floor. Opening up that bottom, like a nice width right there, stop, float away.

Finishing that rotation within within the inside so everything stays nice and round. Okay, now we're ready to pull up those walls. And when pulling up your walls, you can slightly go for that cone shape or keep it fairly straight up and down. You don't you don't need to overdo that cone shape because we're going to be flaring it out. But there are a couple things to keep in mind when throwing these bowls. One is as you stretch the clay it is going to fit so we know we're gonna be flaring that rim out.

So make sure that your rooms do not get too thin compress regularly keep those rooms nice and thick. Another thing to keep in mind, let's say you're going forward just a normal kind of rounded mixing bowl shape, similar to This. So if we're going to throw a shape similar to this, your trouble area is going to be this lower shoulder area right here. That's where all the weight is going to collect. If things are going to want to slump or collapse on you, most likely that's where it's going to happen. So when throwing your full first start up, walls straight up second or third pool, you can begin to flare them out, not at the bottom, flared them straight out.

And then lastly, come in, we're going to belly out that bottom shoulder to limit the amount of stress in that area. So let's put all that together. Moving over to our throwing position, leaning towards my right brace in my arm, first pool pretty much straight up, lighting the light and the pressure up as you move to the top. Keeping that rim nice and thick. compress it down. Now on my second tool Want to begin to move those walls out and to do that, I'm going to use pretty much even pressure with both the inside and the outside hand compared to those straight wall cylinders, all the pressures coming from the outside.

Now I'm gonna use even pressure and flare it out pinching at the base of the piece and moving it up to establish the width of our rim and take as many poles if you need if you need to take a couple more poles to turn that out. Take one more here. As soon we're going to start introducing ribs before right now I still want you to focus on your hands your ribs can be very helpful tool in shaping and smoothing the inside. But again, the hands are the most important tool. We need to use them first before we start worrying about holding our ribs are holding additional equipment. Okay, so now we pulled up our walls We've blurred out a rim.

Now we're ready to come in and belly out our bottom. Now anytime with a open form, whether it's a bowl or a plate, that transition between the floor and the wall is critical this area right in here, or this area right inside your form here. If that is a poor transition and awkward undulation within that area, it's going to break up the flow the entire piece. So make sure you spit you pay special attention to that transition. So I'm going to come back in now, focusing on that area and begin shaping that bottom. We're just gonna create this nice round, salad bowl mixing bowl type shape.

Sure that has a nice transition into our walls. I'm bailing it out from the bottom, pushing out with my inside hand, bracing with the sponge on the outside and just moving up Come back in bellied out just a little bit more. Now when you're throwing, this is something we haven't talked about yet, when you're throwing all these throw to the inside, and what this means as you're throwing your vessels here inside the inside of your vessel should be exactly how you want the end product to look. You can do a lot of the cleaning up and fine tuning the shape on the outside through the trimming process, but you cannot go back inside and fine tune the inside shape later on or during that training process. So right now make sure that transition between the floor and the wall is nice. Make sure the walls are clean and everything is just the way you want it to be on the inside of your vessel.

Again, that's what we call throw into the inside. And at this point, it can be nice time to start adding some of those detail work right now it's a pretty standard straight forward. Mixing Bowl salad bowl perhaps. Let's go with the salad bowl. Let's say this is a salad bowl. One of the wonderful, wonderful things about the handcrafted object is that we can begin to reference the utilitarian purpose of this object.

So we're thinking salad maybe we're thinking let us leave. Let's go ahead and for this fall out a little bit and give us a little bit of a room to work with. Yeah, I'm simply belling it out why bracing the inside lane this rim over, over so gently. Okay, there we go. That gives us a little bit of a rim to work with. But it also gives us somewhat of a handle a gripping place for this poll.

We'll leave a little bit of a Maker's Mark on the inside, which is basically a little spiral it helps show that this was handmade and now thinking of this lettuce leaf, referencing the the utilitarian purpose of this but also wanted to make this just a nice, fun piece to use. Let's try to reference that salad or that lettuce leaf reference within the bowl itself here. So I'm going to do is just kind of come in and give it a little bit of an organic swish to it. But it's going to be pushing up From the outside and down from the inside, something like that. So again, we go turn to look like a head of lettuce, right? Oh, nice.

There we go. That should work. Now this looks like it again this is looks like it's going to be fun to use, it's going to be interactive, it's going to engage the user of it, I could see a nice bowl of lettuce within this nice Caesar salad, something like that going on. Alright, so next, you come back in, clean up the bottom. Now we'll move on to a more freeform type of ball here. Okay, nice tight grip with both hands on your with a knife, quarter turn and let the wheel do the work should be spinning into the blade, tip of the knife all the way down to the wheel head and slide it in.

Lock holder position. undercut we'll clean this up. Under cat with your knife or with your excuse me with your wire tool, pop that off. And let's throw one more, a little different style a bowl here. So let's take a look at a couple different styles of bowls here. It will throw just like a nice little straight walled rice bowl type shape and then we'll do a little more of a freestyle shape here and be a little more organic.

And these are important steps to learn. Just start playing around with your forms, personalizing your forms, things along that line, because again, that's going to separate your vessels from everybody else's. So here we're gonna start off with a nice rice bowl shape, nice flared out small base. Now the reason why I wanted to do this particular shape is again to talk about throwing To the insect that is so important, make sure you get the inside just the way you want it, especially with this particular shape. Because, you know we're working at a fairly small scale, I got a pound pound and a half here, but if you want to do this as a large scale especially, you're going to want to make sure you leave a little extra clay on the outside to support those walls depend on how far you can flare them out for sure, you may need to leave a little extra clay out there.

And that is totally fine. Don't worry about doing that because you can remove all that excess clay during the trimming process. But if you're really wanting to clear these out and have that nice open bowl shape, again, this clay is very soft and may want to slump on you. So you want to make sure you do leave some of that extra clay out there to support that. Press this rim down again because that rim is going to continue to thin as I've played it out He's in a little more pressure with my inside hand pinching and pulling out the pressure as we get to the edge. Very nice, something like that.

We have a nice 10 wall, little vessel right here. Now I'm just gonna clean that up. Depending on how far you want to throw these walls out. Sometimes you can even just lay your hands along the inside, facing the outside, of course, we'll just start to lay it over a little bit. Just start stretching that out a little detail line right here, lift that up just a little bit. A little spiral in there.

I'm gonna go. But again, the point I'm really wanting to stress here make is don't worry about leaving some extra clay out here. You may need it to support these forms certain forms more than others. And again, they can always be removed later to the trimming process. shimmy we'll do something a little bit larger, maybe a little more of a freestyle shape here. And sighs I hear students.

I hear this a lot like you know how big a piece can you make? I want to make something big. Don't worry about size that'll come with time. Oh, come with experience right now just really focused on fine tuning your shapes. You know, as you become comfortable with your shapes, become comfortable with material. Those larger forms will come.

Centered up it's all about the basics. You know that inside can always pain attention to that transition from your floor to your walls. so critical. Pinch for those walls up. Pressure room down, move that excess clay. All right, now we're gonna gain some height here and start using a little more pressure with my inside hand to start flaring out the top of those walls.

But again, I'm establishing the width of my room first. You can clearly see how the still that middle finger is my main contact point. It may look like I have a lot of fingers in there like there's a lot of things going on but it is still pinching simply fingertip to fingertip and upper layer moisture on there once again. And now I'm going to start to start shooting I'm gonna start building out that bottom. I have a pretty good with with my rim here. We're making a nice kind of mixing bowl type shape filling it out bracing the outside.

Okay, and we are almost there. I'd like to do I think is is flare out this bottom a little bit more. give myself a little bit more of a canvas here for some of this freestyle decorating that I might like to do on this piece. As we may do a little slip work on this guy later in the next couple sections. Right now let's get a little There we go. Just a little area to work with.

The cleanup check my transition between my floor and my wall. Everything's looking pretty good. Hang up that bottom. Let's come in here and do some design work. Second nice little area for maybe a little built in handle. Okay, see that service catch right here and I use that Tom right there.

It's a nice comfortable use the balance out the form here, maybe little dent on this side. There we go. We can we can away from that stiffness, that mechanical fill that nice tight or that tight round ball and create a little bit more of an organic flow to it again so it's gonna be a little more interactive, be a little more entertaining to use, you will want to come back in and clean up the bottom with my wooden knife again, nice firm grip without knife removing that clay at the base. Something like that. Okay, so next let's come in and talk about trimming some of these bowls.