Throwing some bowls with different views

Hello YouTube. So today we're going to do some bowls. I'm going to do two different styles of bowls and I'm going to give you a couple different ways to see how I'm shaping them. Special tools that you'll need for today that you might not have yet will be a green number one. This is a Sherrell mud tool. The color is green. It's stiffer and it's a shape number one. The other tool is a yellow zero. The yellow is a little softer than the green and it is shape number zero. And you don't need to have a chamois but bowls are one of the few things I use a chamois on. So I've got my chamois out here with me. What you're basically going to do is pull a cylinder in a v-shape and then push that v-shape into a bowl shape. It's so easy. I've got a random chunk of clay. I believe, I believe box isn't labeled but it looks like beemix with grog. All the centering stuff, guess what, is exactly the same. There is nothing different with centering for a any other pot. The difference comes in with how we end up opening it. So we get it center dish and we're going to open it up the same way but we're not going to flatten out the bottom and I'm not going to go quite as far down. Now I'm going to pull up and out in a v-shape. I'm going to get underneath there. I'm going to pull up in a v and I will do this in another view so you can see how it's coming out. But I'm not flattening out the bottom and I'm not pulling straight up and I'm not pulling like really flat out. I'm also leaving the top relatively thick. I don't want the top to get thin because as I shape it and stretch that lip out it will get thinner itself. Okay so we have a straight wall to the bottom. Oh I forgot a tool. We need a spongel. We need to get the water out of the bottom. Should look something like that. So there is you can see there's a little well down there and that's okay. We left it thick or thicker at the bottom to deal with that. So I'm going to use my wooden knife on the outside. This is where the other view will come in handy. I'm going to scrape the outside of my piece because I'm no longer going to touch the outside. On a bowl this size I'm going to use a green rib. Now this is where it's going to be hard to see because but I'm going to put it in. I'm going to put it in so that the bottom engages the side of the pot. So this point is kind of the middle. This engages and I'm going to rotate that pressure out to engage more of the rib and I'm going to slide up and out to shape the bowl. I've got my left hand supporting my right hand. Press down and engage and I'm going to lift the tool up so you can see where it's touching more and pushing more here. This is engaging that bottom. It's cleaning up that curve in the bottom and you can see the less pressure out here. I'm going to clean that off. I also want to make sure that when I'm pushing I'm pushing so that it's feathered. So I'm not jamming it in like this or even opposite that opposite the feather because it'll catch. I'm going to move that pressure up and out and that makes a smooth bowl shape. I would then take my chamois chamois the edge and cut it off. Removing a bowl is a little different than a cylinder. I'm going to make sure I have four fingers that are clean. I'm going to start against the wheel head and give a little twist and lift up and that that is enough to pick up your piece without denting the bottom and whatnot. Another shape bowl this would be harder but for this shape it's fine. I'm going to turn it on its side so you can see the outside profile there and then we're going to switch that up. We're going to do another one. Okay so we're going to do that same bowl we're just going to do it from the side so you can see a little better what's going on. Again centering is the same. Opening it up is the same except you leave it a little bit thicker at the bottom and I do not flatten the bottom out. I'm going to wet it inside and out top to bottom. Start against the wheel head push underneath and lift that clay up and into the wall. Wet it do it again get that stuff down there up and in. From the outside I can explain the knife and stuff a little better too. So to get a good even curve from lip to lip in the bottom of your piece your clay needs to be either really even or tapered really evenly. So for me I'm going to take this and I'm going to run that that line that I have on the outside of my bowl all the way to the wheel head. What that does is when I'm pushing on it the gradient of my clay is going to taper some so it'll be thicker at the bottom than it is at the top but it's an even gradual thickness change. If I leave this down here and this chunk is against the wheel head and pushing up against the pot when I push down that clay is going to push back up against the pot and that's the biggest issue in making a potter's hump is that that curve I'm going to try to draw it here is that if your bowl goes like this this little bump here is where that clay from underneath is pushing up and that's no good. So we cut that and that goes away like instantaneously you save all that stuff. So I'm going to get the water out of the bottom again oh I got to scrape this off I'm going to slip off the outside so I'm going to use my metal rib because I'm not going to touch the outside after I use this rib I want to set the surface up so I don't have to do anything after shaping then from the inside I'm going to use my rib again I'm going to go down you can watch the outside as I push down into the bottom here and I engage the rib it'll come out a little bit so now the inside is smooth see that build up there at the bottom I'm going to rotate the pressure out and then I'm going to move up and out and the bowl travels along with it and then we could do something I guess while we're at this camera angle I can take my chamois and I could hold this bowl at this shape or I could change it some I could pull the lip out a little bit and that's just with the chamois pushing in between and then cutting it off this would be another view take the wire tool run it underneath scrape my hand off on my bucket so that my finger pads are nice and clean I'm going to if the bowl is in between here I'm going to bring them together as well as close them and a little twist and bump it off then you put it on your board all right we'll cut this in half to show and this is what I'm talking about in a clean variation from thickness it does get thicker in the bottom like that's there's nothing wrong with that what's going to happen is this is going to get trimmed to match the curve of the bowl on the outside and the inside and it's just that little bit I'd much I would much rather have to trim a little bit off than to have a shitty looking bowl so if this helps you keep a nice smooth curve to the inside of your bowl and then subsequently the outside of your bowl after you trim then do that if you can throw stiffer clay and not have to put that much in then it's just less trimming but don't sacrifice a thin pot just to get an ugly one and then the last bowl we'll do is a wide shallow bowl or a wider shallow bowl these are the bowls that my wife likes I'm going to kind of do a three-quarter view here these are the bowls that my wife likes the most same kind of thing except we're going to stretch out the clay a little more at the beginning so I'm going to flatten it out a little bit further making sure I press it down against the wheel head and then when I open it I'm going to open it flatter so I'm not opening it in much of a v and then I'm going to spread the clay out and as I go out to the outside edge I'm going to lift up a little bit so that this bottom isn't flat across it comes up at an angle I'm going to go underneath here and I'm going to lift this up and out a wee bit do one more pull this one is going to be hard to get with my knuckle so I usually go because I want to get right underneath there I'm going to do that with my finger just like the other bowl I'm going to cut the skirt off scrape the slip off the outside get the water out of the bottom and then shape it with the rib again trying to engage that rib from the outside to the middle and then shammy it we have our low shallow bowl without variation in the bottom um those are it this one you cannot pick up well we can try but it doesn't pick up well because the curve is so close to the bottom and it's wide and shallow so typically I would cut it leave it on the bat and as soon as I can flip it over I'd flip it over but yeah picking it up is just going to do this even if you're even if you're uh you're decent we could have cut it in half but it's too late now you get the idea thanks for joining if you've got any questions post them in the comment section down below and um I'll try to get them as quick as I can okay bye