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Trimming a Foot of Clay Pottery Bowls: Part 3

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Summary: Learn how to trim the foot of the clay when you're making clay pottery bowls with expert tips on throwing on pottery wheels in this free video art lesson. Part 3.

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Trimming a Foot of Clay Pottery Bowls: Part 3

I'm going to take the lid off and I just take a tiny tiny bit off of the top. I will go back to this edge many times and I'm going to trim the center out and I like to do with the edge of the tool but as a beginner you might want to take this tool and carve that line in. I'm so use to using one tool and every part of my pot is important. It is not just the way of the inside of it looks it is the way the rim looks, it is the way the bottom looks to. I tilt my tool this way to take off some of this edge here and I will work on that a little bit more. What I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to create the same curve that I have in my pot. In that whole spiral that I spoke about in my throwing I also do here. I'm going to do it just like this I'm going to work my way in quickly and put a spiral there. Then the edge you can see that they are very rough and sharp so I lightly put my tool there and make a little line here which is called a shadow line and that just lifts the pop up off the surface of the table again and just makes it a little bit lighter looking. Here I just press my fingers in and I soften that up. This line right here I'm going to work on that just a tiny bit more and that will give it a nice transition from the trim part to the throwing part. Anything that I see rough this is the time that I want to fix it up. Okay that would be it on a trim bowl now I have a foot and it is done.

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