【Japanese traditional crafts】4K Making a white porcelain teapot 【陶芸】白磁の急須を作る

Hey guys, for Tip Tuesday here, we're gonna talk about some decorative cuts. We're just gonna go over a few fundamentals that are key to help get smooth cuts, but also add depth. More particularly, add depth in a flower petal with just a few couple things that we need to concentrate on. So, when we look at that, we're gonna have our typical fundamentals where we're gonna start those cuts deep and we're gonna fade them out light, all right? Just like we've always talked about those cuts. I'm pulling my cuts towards me and they all have some curve to them. We don't wanna have straight decorative cuts. That does not get any depth to there. Now, when we look at inside these petals, I wanna show you two differences. We're gonna be pulling towards where our flower center would be, but I wanna show you in contrast here. So, all these cuts individually, nice cuts. They have some curve to them, they start deep, they fade to light, they stagger down the petal there. However, they're fairly parallel. We have a little bit of taper to them, but not a lot. They're covering a wide base on that petal. So, we're not getting as much life out of that petal as we can. What we wanna do, let's get just a little bit more curve to them even. I pull that one long cut down, fading towards the center. Now, watch how much tighter I keep these cuts. We're gonna start by fanning them out wide, but then look how close I fade those towards each other, coming in down towards that flower center. So, we get the fade front to back here, if we're looking at it this way, from starting deep and fading light, but then we also get some of that fade inside that petal coming out by keeping them tapered towards each other. Always tapering down towards the center and towards each other. Remember, we're staggering those as well. We have a long cut, we're gonna stagger down, but if those cuts continue, they're not running into each other. They're all gonna fold back down towards that center.