Next, we're going to take a look at the two basic most basic shaping techniques and that is going to be coloring and Belene. So I'm gonna start off with a cylinder shape. And again, everything's based off that cylinder shape. And from there we'll talk about the actual technique. I'll be working with a piece of clay larger than what I would recommend you working with. Again, you should be working with about a nice comfortable hand size and focusing on cups small cylinders, to really develop the technique, control control level tops, even rims, even wall thickness.

So coloring and belly. Get a cylinder pulled up here. If you find that your walls continue to flare out, most likely you're using too much pressure with your hands. Beside hand during these initial cylinders, so to counter that, you can color in the top which I'll show you here in one moment. But you can also use this as a good technique for cleaning up bar or cleaning up your initial shapes, taking in your bottles and just basic shaping all the way around. Okay, so we have our cylinder here, let's say during your throwing your cylinder and you're working it up, you find that your walls continue to flare out like so.

So at this point, what you're going to need to do is color those walls back in and basically basically there's going to be compressing the, the platelets back inward. One thing to keep in mind as you do this, these clay platelets are not going to perfectly lined back up so you may have to trim your rim after this. For coloring Lee for forward Place your nose roughly over the center of the clay, expanding your hands using Lots of water to limit the amount of friction on the surface of the clay body. So you don't want it to twist or lose your shape. Lean forward, and I want you need to make contact in four to six points. I'm going to make contact here and here and here.

So six con six points all the way around the piece. It was a smaller piece, you may need to take your hands in tighter. It's almost like a choking motion. Okay, start lower than you want the area that you're going to be compressing in. compressing and move your hands up. You can begin to take that cylinder back and take as many passes as you need depending on how tight you'd like to take that so under and if you look closely, you can see now I have an undulation along my rim and this is common this is going to happen because again this clay platelets are not going to perfectly line up.

So now you'll need to come back in a cut that rim straight, depending on the point that you do this. You're also going to be thickening those walls. So if you're close to that finishing state of your vessel, you may wouldn't be able to come back in here and give another pool or two. I'm gonna go ahead and give another pool again, a little more high tier, and we'll continue working on this. Okay, as you're pulling up these walls, you might keep those elbows in nice and tight control control control, using our sponge, catching the clay with my inside hand and moving that clay upward, all the way to the top. Okay, if you can continue your cylinders within this nice tight cone shape.

Again, that's gonna make gaining height a lot easier. It'll help keep that room from flaring out on you. So next, let's talk about belly to belly is extremely important aesthetically and functionally. Let's take a look at a special over here. Talk about proper hand movement. And then talk about the mechanics of it.

And then we'll talk about some of these aesthetic and conceptual issues. Basically what belly in is, is to be stretching out the inside of these walls here to create this sense of volume. Now this sense of volume is key. If you think of say, a deflated balloon and then blown up balloon, a deflated balloon is kind of sad, we can almost have a decaying look to it. We're a balloon that is blown up. It has a sense of volume, it has a sense of life to it.

We're doing the same thing with our vessels by creating this sense of volume, we're going to be breathing life into the form as you work on these Belene The idea here and again, rule of thumb through working on the inside brace the outside working on the outside, brace the inside, we're going to be pushing out from the inside to create this belly. So you're going to need to support the outside, hook my fingers here, moving up, pushing out, keeping those fingers together and moving through the form. So we'll do something similar to that and we'll just give this piece a nice sense of volume. breathe a little life into it. My hands are going to be in the throwing position, fingertip to fingertip. But instead of all the pressure coming from my outside hand, my outside hand is now going to take a more supporting role while my inside hand pushes out the clay and I move up.

And again this does not have to all be done in one pass, take as many passes as you need. Starting from the bottom and moving up, filling it out as we go, supporting the walls with your outside hand. Moving through the piece. Now, we're starting to come to a more finished data more developed vessel. But again it has that sense of volume as if it wants to hold liquid at hand wants to hold food. It has a purpose it has a life force within it.

Take as many passes as you need. There's still supporting that outside pushing out from the inside. Moving through your vessel, fine tuning your shoulder. When we come back in here, fine tune our top we have a nice finished piece. Let's work on our coloring again. Let's say we come up here and our piece begins to flare out on us.

You can always come back in here and begin to color this top in and fine tune our shape that way. Taking that top in, again, we may need to cut this top straight to even it up, depend on where we are. Once you feel comfortable with those slight movements or just bending the clay in bending it out, you can really start to develop these more complicated forms. The next one I want to do is take this down a notch Talk about our cup forms are smaller vessels that we should be working on and from there we'll move into trimming the finishing process of our vessels.