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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 create a three part vase 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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Forming Clay for a Vase

So I'm going to show you how to make a vase, using extruded hollow tubes, and you can make it with several compartments, and they can point off in different directions so that you can make a really cool flower arrangement. Now I am going to be using the extruder for this project, so first I'm going to have to prepare my clay for the extruder. An extruder is like a giant Play Doh factory, it will squeeze out long pieces of very uniform clay. Mine has a four inch round shaft. So I'm going to cut a piece of clay. And then I'm going to shape this to be roughly the shape of that barrel. So first I'm going to take it and I'm going to hit the corners on the table to round them out a little bit. And then I'm just going to pat this out to make it a little bit longer. I want this tube to be smaller than the barrel of the extruder so that it slips in there really easily. Now once I've got my clay prepared for the extruder, I can actually go over there and start making my pieces.

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