This is what a pottery beginner looks like

I love how this is basically mud. Welcome to a new video! Thank you for checking in on me and if you're new to my channel, hi my name is Tessa, I'm an artist and we are in my pottery studio that I set up in my old childhood bedroom in my parents' home. I want to show you my studio for the first time today and we're also going to make some pottery. If that's something you're interested in then just keep watching. So here we are in front of my desk. I got this IKEA desk with these two separate, I don't know how you call it, they're not legs. You just put a table top on top. I mean that it somehow belongs together but I thought it was kind of pretty. What's also good is I can place my clay that is still packed onto the bottoms and that way the desk doesn't move so when I throw the clay and wedge it then the desk doesn't move which is great. That is this area and over here we do have my pottery wheel. Just for references there's the desk area with some clay I want to reuse and clay that is still in the water that needs to sink down but I think until today it has sunken enough. And here I built this shelf. It's also from IKEA. I built it with my boyfriend together and this is where I'm gonna store all the things that I've pottered but for now it's just it's a bit random and down there are just some clear bins that I will store more clay in. And in this cute little box we do have my pottery tools. It's just a few for now but yeah. If you're from Germany and you're searching for a good pottery wheel as a beginner then I can highly recommend this one because in comparison it was not too expensive. That's a very good pottery wheel for beginners. These chairs are from IKEA. I think they are the most basic pottery chairs or stools that you can find and this one has actually had the same size as the big one but I just cut the legs a bit shorter so that I can sit comfortably at my pottery wheel. Most of my tools are from IKEA too like the boxes, the lamp, the apron and the bolts too. IKEA. Just IKEA. Let's make some pottery, shall we? I'm fully dressed and prepared and ready and the first thing we're gonna do is I'm gonna use this clay and we're gonna recycle all of this clay now. I love how this is basically mud. I love it. I'm still a pottery baby so there might be a lot of things that I'm doing wrong. Don't go at me but if you're a bit advanced in pottery then please give me any tips if you notice something I'm doing incorrectly. The first thing I want to do, I want to clean up a bit because I didn't do that last time. Big nay nay. Big up. Didn't. I trust my intuition there. You have to spread it pretty evenly and not too thin I believe but that's all I know. I feel like this piece is almost still a bit wet but I think we can work with it. I'm also going to prepare multiple chunks now and I also have these two balls. They were a bit too dry that's why I put them in this wet towel and now I think they're pretty good and these two already feel better. They're much tighter, much more firm. I think that's better. So I've got my tools. Now that I've potted this beautiful thing I have to ruin it now. I have to cut the middle to see if the walls are even and if the bottom is too thick, too thin or okay because that's part of the learning process. Yep, that was way too thin at the bottom and the edges were really thick. This is why you have to do that at the beginning because as you can see the bottom is way too thin and the walls here are super thick and on top here super thin again. It's good to see that because that way you can learn and that way you know what to make better the next time. Yeah, like a little couch. And now I will do it again. This is what my fingers look like now and this is what my pottery attempts look like. That's part of the journey, that's part of learning. I tried multiple times so let's clean this space up. Okay, so for the most part it's clean. The floor is pretty clean and here I'm just waiting for these pieces of clay to be dry enough to put them in this plastic bag and then they will go into the shelf and when that is done I will clean the tabletop. This part is not dry enough yet so I'm gonna keep it here and maybe I will come again tomorrow in the evening and see what it looks like.