Pottery Wheel
Advenced Ceramics students will spend 5 or more days working to learn how to use the pottery wheel. The goal is to learn the basics of potty wheel construction and to create a piece of art of their choosing.
Prior to beginning your work, homework to prepare includes viewing several YouTube videos to learn/observe basic techniques:
“how to center clay on the potter’s wheel”
“Centering clay for beginners”
Pottery Wheel Vocab and termonology:
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Basic tools to use on the potter’s wheel
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Setting up the potter’s wheel to work
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Splash guard
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Batt
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Centering
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Opening
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Forming
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Pulling
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Trimming
Video Resources - here are a few videos that are good for learning basic techniques, but feel free to look up others, too.
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Beginning work on the potter's wheel - Click here
Chuen Lin has great step-by-step tutorials for working on the wheel - click here!
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Centering and Posture Explained
Centering by using a cone - click here
Another person who centers well
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Why Can’t I center in the middle?
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Creating a bowl
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