Carving A Wheel Thrown Pierced Stoneware Bowl- A Geometric Approach

This video shows the process I use to carve and pierce some of my geometric pottery. I have long done geometric carving with sgraffito, and recently, have just begun doing some carved pottery where it is entirely pierced. In this, I don't show the throwing or trimming steps, as that can be found in other videos... just see my channel. I do show the process I use when I lay out the design and carve however. One thing I do mention is that when this was done being carved and cleaned, I VERY slowly dried it with a thick towel over it. After it was bone dry, I bisque fired it on a slow firing program. I then dipped/poured black glaze over it. Then, for cone firing, I fired again on a SLOW program to cone 5 with a 25 minute hold for my Coyote black glaze.

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The materials I use for carving are an exacto type hobby knife, a needle or pin tool, a rib to smooth mistakes, a mini ribbon tool for carving the roundness on the corners, and a brush for smoothing.

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The piece show was thrown using my typical Laguna B-mix cone 5 with grog. I probably had about 5 hours of carving and cleaning in it.

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I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 28 years, the past 20 have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; https://www.etsy.com/shop/KaransPotsA...

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