How to Create Pottery II: Preparation

you do have to prepare the clay and when
you prepare the clay it’s called wedging
and what it does clay sometimes have
these air bubbles in them and what
happens that if you don’t wedge it take
the air bubbles out when you fire it and
kill these air bubbles will pop and it
might kind of break your piece so you
want to curly compress the clay the
other night and I want to just want it
to take to everybody who’s watching us
today Cal is the oven I don’t know that
right now I choose so you what your
canvas table and it’s kind of hard so
what you do this is called wedging the
clay and it takes some muscles right big
muscle pig knuckle head um this is a
really small ball of clay I’m gonna take
that out so the kill us the other work
that’s happening here and generally
depending on the type of clay you have
depending how old it is how many air
bubbles you think it might have you can
wedge it up to a hundred times you might
need to wade your for only 20 times but
I mean this has been pre wedged so i
don’t have to why’d you like 50 times
for you but this is how it looks like
I’m gonna hit it pack it nice and firm
and go and whatever clay you’re not
using you want to put back in your bag
so that is this or doesn’t dry out this
play is a very precarious medium and if
it dries out then it’s all over