Clay Spinning Preparation Tips

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Part of the video series: Clay Pottery Slump & Torque Techniques

Centering Clay on a Spin Wheel

Summary: Clay pottery requires patience and detail with every tool you use to hand craft your piece. Learn about clay forming tips that you will need from a pottery expert to use the techniques of slumping and torquing in this free video clip.

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Emily Owen Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. She took advanced placement art courses to earn college credit while in High School, before heading to the Un... read more

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Clay Spinning Preparation Tips

A really fun method to work with, when working on the wheel, is to intentionally slump and torque your pieces. If you look at this piece right here, this is just going to be a little candle holder, put a little votive cup in the middle, and it has kind of a floral look to it and I like that a lot. And the way that a piece like this is made is just by stretching the clay a little bit too thin, laying it out a little bit too far, and then spinning it really fast, and it causes the torque and the folding. And I'm going to show you how to make a piece just like that, and also how to make a vase where the bottom is very traditional, and the top is torqued and folded over like that. So, for a piece like this, I only need about a pound of clay. So that's just a little bit over a pound, and that'll be just right. Pat that up into a nice ball. And then this chunk that's left over, it's just under two pounds and so I'll make a vase out of this. So now we'll go to the wheel, and I'll show you how this is done.