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Beginner Wheel Throwing Class

Added Dec 11, 2019 •

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okay hello YouTube This Is The Good Earth rolling video 2.0 spent about ten years since the first one and some things have changed some things Heaven end of the school situation wheel setup thing the first first time you get to the wheel you're going to dampen the little bit is something that is dark but not shiny if your real head is shiny it means it's too wet how much do you use if you want something between orange and a grapefruit about a pound and a half a clay somewhere around there 2 lb of meat per pound and a half of clay is good practice amount I'm first thing we're going to do is get it wet I'm going to do the demo kind of what I would do in my first day of class the first video so the first devil that I do is start to finish quick and dirty demo, everything I'm going to do it so that I'm going to do that job class then we like I want to make sure that it stays with two rules keep it wet keep it spinning people that always keep it spinning I'm going to push down on the address whose edges will stick and form a seal and then I'm going to do what's called Century Century his two steps up and counting down has no place to go but out of the top of my hands that's going to make a cone up Kona countdown keep it spinning I'm going to push down forward my left him is going to go down and poured my right hand is going to catch play drive it to the middle again this is the quick and dirty demo or going to go into greater detail on the next one but I wanted to give you guys a chance to throw before I confuse you with all the other stuff for going to talk about in a straight line left hand is at a 90-degree angle want to squeeze together has no place to go but can I get a first down against we don't have to push down and forward with my left we're going to do that until it's in the middle in the middle in your hand and still when you're done now have it in the middle open it up two fingers and a thumb and wrap my left hand around my right hand is going to push the side of my middle finger push down open it up bottom middle towards 3 and you will probably get to this point and that is okay I'm showing you so it's not a surprise later I'm going to squeeze together as a squeeze together going to move up this is called pulling a wall you up and towards the middle as a weapon towards the middle of the Stoli release the pressure and let go inside and out top to bottom push down against feeling squeezed together chords the middle again and pull a wall and the rest of the stuff you do today want you to pull up to your record the goal is to learn. was not to make stuff yet the best way to learn is by doing it till your record good night see how far they can go but failure feels like what's your record I want you to cut it in half by cutting half hour to go all the way through once and go underneath and lift up this is where you left stuff what to do that to all the pieces and then set that aside and we will either recycle it or dispose of it correctly later if you've made a big mess are you going smiley faces and stuff in the middle you need to scrape this clean I'm going to use your wooden bread start in the middle of a snow plow It Off if it's not slimy leave it just like that don't wash it it's already make sure this ball of clay into a ball and a previous video there twice this is the important part of the video here this is why we do things the first demonstration is basically just to get people used to using the paddle how things spin letting them get used to how he feels some people never touched play before class I go into debt to what we're doing here so I got my hands wet when I say to wet the clay I do not mean sprinkling on it from above I don't mean taking a handful I don't use a sponge for this I dip my hand both hands let me to put them on the clay former layers slip that we're looking for we're not looking for a deluge of water we want is this this is the good stuff now once we have it wet I want to push down on the edges to push. we'll kind of put my hand at an angle I'm going to push on this part here from here some of the push down on these sides that's going to form a skirt around outside to verify we have a script put your finger on here check it make sure it's sealed all the way around one stats week in Kona this should not be trying to Center the clay this Cancer Center it now and put lateral pressure on it you're going to end up pushing the ball off the clip off the wheel head I'm back out here to try to I'm not going to rain play the middle of my wrist and my elbow to be in a straight line when I push for my elbow I'm driving the clay from the end of my arm and not my hand I don't want to include this part in the pushing cuz there's a lot of little muscles that move in your wrist in your arm and I don't want all these other joints to be at that I have to control whatever dusitd2 minutes going to pasalacqua push of the end of my arm from my elbow to push my body against my arm so I can push on the clay last saw I want this part and this part to be in contact with the clay I'm not squeezing with my fingers I don't want to leave little ridges I want to push right here that's the meaty part me to take my left and I'm going to put it at a 90 degree angle to my right over left left over right pushed displacement I'm just pushing wherever the clay can go easiest is going to go if I leave the top open what are push and squeeze together know this also isn't centering this is part of something but don't try I sent you the clay when you caught up Let it Be Wiggly it can be all wonky right now centring happens on the cone down this coming up puts the clay in a position where you're incrementally pushing a little bit of clay into the middle at a time forcing and manhandling the whole chunk of clay you're doing a little bit is the only part that you're trying to drive into the middle each rotation so we can Center large amounts of clay without a lot of effort push my leg bodyweight against my leg when I push my body only push down turn up a little bit more bending to play so the has to go down as I pushed is no place to go I want to go down my right hand is catching playing driving it into the middle down and forward a little bit of the time that's slowly drives it to the middle Domo said to move some of my right fingers for the ball play the size that's okay I'm going to do that so centring is not just about putting the claim to the middle it's also about homogenizing York in a way that your inconsistencies if you do have them are spread out flat each time you put pressure on the clay you actually spinning it a little bit and when you spend that cash and starts to take them from what would be like this and flattens them out the worst thing that you can have is an inconsistency and that is espurr evolution or something that's going to make it harder I'm possible but harder so when you sent to you actually stretching out the clay and your homogenizing it in a quart or horizontally from totally makes sense to me just Lincoln Square to the top of my hands Berkeley this small only coming up once you're not following the clean up my right hand never leaves the wheel head stays right again Studio heads I just pushed down at the place where it's out of the top of my hand if you're lifting it up you going to put a Ireland it would be harder to deal with long a first-round record we want to end in a gumdrop sort of shape if you need help remembering what you're doing is goes candy corns Gumdrop candy corn the Gumdrop and sing the song far you'll get a junior mint and Junior Mints make volcanoes volcanoes have lava lavas hot we don't want that stuff cuz Burns if we don't go down far enough release entering the whole master in the middle to the top not getting that bottom stuff so I can come down stop it at 30 minutes to counting down to make sure you're not pressing with your hands flat that I'm over laughing my hands by thumb at the top middle so down and forward me part pushing down pushing forward and that my hands are overlapped okay so easy so far I'm going to take now there's lots of different ways opening up I found this week the easiest way for beginner people to Center clay it just it just ends up the side of my middle finger on my right hand I'm going to run my thumb parallel to that she want me to do I'm going to give you so we want to do the pointing gun so we going to this part of my phone is going to run parallel to those finger I'm going to wrap my hand around the clan down and then that's going to drop the whole so easy come straight to the wheel this Parts going to push down my thumb is parallel to those fingers so that they don't send this way my thumb doesn't been that way so it kind of hooks everything together and one strong dual there I'm going to open it up so that I get a little bit of a hole and I'm going to add water to it keep those together is it really pushing it's just there for the ride until I go a third of an inch from the bottom at this stage we don't need to measure it it's not that big of a deal just don't go all the way down to the bottom if you can help it and don't leave an inch at the bottom or fearing Cabinetry 11 30 seconds and then you take the same two fingers turn on the side and the support that hand with my right there with my left when I move towards 3 and squish it back down now I'm not really pressing the clay I'm just making sure it is smooth inside and out top to bottom making sure all the surfaces lubricated cookie cookie take my hand put all my fingers together and make a c shape so easy right hand to make a fist finger out and I'm going to cramp it up looks like that I'm the clay is going to hit here this part is going to be against the wheel head the inside my thumb is going to touch my hand cramping fingers going to be in the outside but this part against will head this part it's the clay and I'm going to start with a kind of at the angle I'm going to lift my hand up to bring that wall up cuz it right now it's kind of out that's going to bring it up and then when I pull on move up and towards the middle up towards the middle another good to the top release the pressure and let go so easy right I know I know so easy and make sure it's wet inside top-to-bottom the reason we want to make sure it's lubricated completely is if you have a dry spot and you're throwing it's going to catch and that's it and consistency that horse needs to be wet top to bottom all the way around I'm going to squeeze together and pull up again just like before I guess what we're going to pull it Toby racket there is no failing Iraq is when oh so good to record yay and then cut it off if your piece Falls over like this don't worry about it just don't get this middle part slimy if you leave it just like that it's great for the next ball of clay when do that hold them again for this we're going to do the demo again I want to do it quicker this time they're not going to go through all the explanation but I'm going to do it push down on the top push down and forward forward down the phone if it starts to get sticky re-wet it going up down and forward you can exaggerate this by opening your hands up and down without overlapping so you can really watch the but they're actually doing it best if you put your hands there and overlap them hoping it up when are the bottom slide over make it smooth wet it inside out top to bottom see-through cookie cream finger you use in the wall and that's our goal next week we'll have another lesson but that's the stuff to practice this week thanks for watching if you guys 7 or 2 if you're watching for the first time subscriber yet hit that subscribe button

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