Maid O'Mud on sun 16 feb 03
william schran said in part
. Big thing to remember - only the bottom
> should be trimmed and thus that's the area you should concern
> yourself with trimming. The rest of the pot should have been
> completed when originally formed.
>
Oh; is there a rule? Pottery police!!!
ANY part of the pot can be trimmed after throwing. If you don't like the
interior curve of your bowl, trim it out and round it more if you like.
Who's to stop you? Don't like the shape of the neck on that vase? Is it
thick? Trim it to please yourself.
I was originally taught the above rule. It came as a shock to me one day
when I saw a well known potter ('round here) trimming the inside of his bowl
before turning it over and trimming the foot. I blurted out "you're not
allowed to do that" and he answered "says who? the pottery police?"
...another DUH moment in my life......
Sam - Maid O'Mud Pottery
Melbourne, Ontario CANADA
"First, the clay told me what to do.
Then, I told the clay what to do.
Now, we co-operate."
sam 1994
http://www.ody.ca/~scuttell/
william schran on mon 17 feb 03
Sam wrote: <ANY part of the pot can be trimmed after throwing. If you don't like the
interior curve of your bowl, trim it out and round it more if you like.
Who's to stop you?>>
Sam - You are absolutely correct. ANY part of the pot CAN be trimmed
- and cut and altered.
I teach my beginning students to complete as much of the form as they
can while the pot is still on the wheel such that only the bottom
needs completion. I also tell them that the inside of the form
determines the shape of the outside. After they are proficient enough
to "adhere" to these "rules", I encourage exploration and breaking
the "rules".
Please - I don't want to be deputized and put on the Pottery Police
Patrol! I promise to break the rules.
Bill
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