His throwing demo...
My tutorial was brilliant. I had a full throwing MOT. Kneading the clay, how much water to use, how to centre, compressing the bottoms, lifting the sides. I threw and he watched and advised and then he checked on my work again later. Brilliant. He liked the way the thrown vessel becomes a jug with just one finger movement at the end of the process. Gave me lots to think about in my tutorial too. Do I want people to look at my final show and see functional jugs, or an installation of vessels which are no longer primarily functional?
