Thrown on a Bad Day — Can I Still Make It Work?

In this Sunday's video, I'm finally finishing off an angular vase you may have watched me throw and trim a number of months ago now. It's a simple shape, fundamentally, yet it was thrown on a bad day when nothing seemed to go well. Yet, in those instances, sometimes it's worth getting SOMETHING successfully off the wheel, so I threw a thickly walled vase, balanced, yet strong, which I knew would need rather a lot of trimming to get it back to a point where I was happy with it.

Following this, the vase is biscuit fired, waxed, coated in a thick layer of white feldspathic crackle glaze and finally reduction fired to cone ten, some 1290ºC. It's about as minimal as my work gets, and as discussed, I struggle with scaling work up due to the lack of interest in the glazes surface as features such as droplets of metal, iron, and other irregularities, become lost in a larger expanse of uniform glaze.

Thanks so much for watching!

⚫️ • How to level a pot's rim:    • How to Fix a Wobbly Rim — A Beginner's Guide  
🤲🏻 • How to cone clay:    • How to Cone Clay on the Potter's Wheel — A...  
🌀 • How to attach pots to the wheel:    • How to Attach Pottery to the Wheel When Tr...  

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🏺 • You may also be interested in my 'A Beginner's Guide' series, which you can find here:    • How to Throw a Pot — A Beginner's Guide  

Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:39 - The vase I want to make
1:27 - Preparing the clay
3:50 - How I centre larger amounts of clay, (two examples)
4:45 - Throwing the angular vase
11:44 - Trimming the angular vase
15:39 - Trimming the base of the vase
17:32 - Packing the electric kiln for a biscuit firing
18:30 - Waxing the base of the vase
19:05 - Glazing the vase
21:31 - Loading & firing my gas kiln
23:35 - The finished vase

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