Pulling Clay for Beginners
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2017
- With school starting some people have been requesting some advice on how to pull a cylinder. well, here you go ! :)
Hope this helps some f your dirty potters.
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I’m sorry I’ve watched this multiple times and Always laugh to 4:58 and I still can’t pull for the life of me
Edit I pulled successfully today and cried lol not the first time I’ve cried happy tears over clay
I know the video is a few years old, but I’ve just started on the wheel. I have struggled with pulling for a long long while, and this video helped me understand. Hope you’re still teaching, you’re meant to be in the classroom
I just want to tell you that I was gifted a kiln and wheel from someone randomly and I learned how to throw entirely by watching your videos and…I’m not doing too shabby. My husband had a potter friend he knows come and see my work (so far just bowls, mugs and candle vessels) and he said “I don’t think there’s anything I can teach her she is doing way better than I ever did when I started.” … Totally Donte University and I’m pretty freaking proud.
You are the absolute perfect teacher for the ADHD students.
I could maybe use some more on the rib because I just eff my ish up with it. No smooth just moosh. If you feel like making another video ;)
Thank you!!!!
I just signed up for a college level Intro to Wheel Throwing with no previous experience. The class body is about 12 students with only 1 instructor which limits the amount of attention each student is able to obtain. Your videos are so much more helpful than the class. I really appreciate all the effort you put into these. Thank you!!!! I look forward to improving my wheel throwing techniques with the use of your videos.
I tried the wheel after 14 years. I had forgotten the fundamentals of cantering a raising the pot. I loved your video, it brought it all back. Now it’s practice practice and hopefully I can achieve. I’m 71 and hope I can master the craft of being a potter. Thank you
I hope you've had succes with your pottery since you posted this!
Mary Farmer would love an update on your pottery journey !
For me it’s been 37 years! I was a under graduate, shame on me but real life happened, now I’m back on the wheel ( saddle 🤪)
Ikr?! I threw pottery as a child. My great-grandfather taught me to throw on a kick wheel. (Native American & family name Potter). He & my grandmother had a pottery studio. After he passed, Gram’s health deteriorated until she passed. I didn’t return to potting until about 24yrs ago until I had to leave it behind again. About a month ago, dh cleared me space in the barn, which is now my studio. I’m having to relearn; hwr, the upside of that is that I have my own wheel. It shocked the heck out of me when I looked up my wheel to see what they cost today. My Shimpo RK Whisper is $1400-$1500 today. It was like $500 when I bought mine.
Hang in there. Pottery seems to follow me no matter what life brings. ☺️😉
You are definitely meant to be a teacher! You are fun yet so very informative. Love your videos. I always learn more from you than any other on CZcams...
Awesome video! I've been throwing for years, but I still find it helpful to see how other potters go about it. I always manage to pick up something new when I hear someone else explain their process.
Yessss! Thank you for the detailed explanation of finger placement!
this is so freaking helpful thank you. Im the worst at arts and crafts and all things creative that dont require much brain work but im doing pottery anyways and ive just been fumbling around, no videos have really helped except for this one. You're an awesome teacher and i love you.
I was listening to your beginner video today. I’m going back to the beginning because my sides are thicker at the bottom. I want to thank you for keeping this video I realized how serious I was when you talk for the pot. The pot said you cut me. Don’t you know I have a family. I’m still smiling. I love your sense of humor. Your videos are so meaningful to me.
I'm 28 I just started learning to throw at my local pottery classes, I always mess up and my cups were wrecked but after seeing how you pull up by using both hands kinda like chokeing it , I do that now and it can fix my cups so i can just cut the wrecked rim and I'll have a reasonably not shitty cup so thanks , my teacher didn't show us that .
Took a class this summer and your video did far more, thank you.
You’re the best….and we thank and love u too…keep the great videos coming!
I have taken wheel lessons many times - too many to count! I was literally "pulling" the walls of the clay up...no wonder I was having problems with making my pots taller than 3". Thanks for setting things straight.
Thank you! Just started a pottery class and this is super helpful. You're really entertaining too, a lot of the other videos I've checked out have been kind of bland but I like that you use your personality to teach.
You seem to be talking directly to me. It is so funny, you answer questions as I have them. Thank you.
You're a really GOOD teacher! Very thorough. I wish I could take a lesson from you in person!! Thanks for the great videos.
Love the way you go into detail about the subject.
This was so helpful! I've always wanted to make bigger pieces on the wheel, but could never figure out what I needed to change about how I was pulling clay to get taller pieces. Your video broke down the process really well 😊
Only a newbie to clay throwing. We are being given three weeks to muck around to get a sense of the clay. I like the way we have been doing it because it means i can look at what is happening as i am working with the wheel. I have learnt a lot in my perceived experimental pots. I got a good compression of the clay, and once the pot hit six inches! Then collapsed. Looking forward to when we get into it next term. Still it is good to watch the videos. Thanks for sharing.
Again learned more here then any class I've taken. Thank you!!!
This was so helpful, thank you! I just started taking a pottery class and have struggled with pulling but the way you explained it made it click.
Love your style, knowledge but most of all your humor. Thanks!
Great explanation. Thanks for getting straight to the point, and very specifics of the how to maneuver the clay. 👍
Another great video! That made a lot of sense actually.
I enjoy your instructional videos - you have a great way of not telling people to use you techniques :D Love it.
I love the sound of the ukulele
Love your videos and love your personality even more. You are so relatable, it feels like more of a conversation than tutorial. Hands down some of the easiest to follow pottery vids on CZcams. Also, as a fellow nerd, I appreciate all of your rad t-shirts! :)
Week 5 for this newbie. Gonna do some pullin and bowling tonight. Thanks Compadre!!
Very educative! thank you for your videos you mention details instructors think we should know from the day we were :) Never stop sharing you are doing a great job ❤
Very entertaining!! Thank you for making an informative video that was also fun to watch!
Stumbled upon your videos while trying to learn how to throw during COVID. Watched your videos and felt like I can do this! Ordered my supplies and wheel and I'm super excited to learnt! You videos are awesome and super funny! 🤣 So here I go...wish me luck lol
Your videos are very informative and detailed.. I've managed to pull and throw rather quickly thanks to your tips... I couldn't get my head around 'pulling' 😆
Thank you for your video. I love the cheeky asides and humour😀
Good Job..........well done that man.
Extremely helpful, thank you!
This one helped me so much!
15:24 , Nov 21,22
Hi Dante!
I’ve been watching your videos for quite a few years now, on and off, and I do enjoy your style. Since the pandemic, I’ve mostly been doing hand building at home. I’m about to return to the wheel so I watched this one when it popped up.
My main comment is that near the beginning you were saying that we should not move the hands but move the elbows. Your elbows were staying perfectly stationary, braced on your thighs. Perhaps it would be clearer if you said move the forearms from the elbows, so the elbow is actually a hinge.
Keeping the wrist straight is certainly important!
Thanks for your spirited videos, from another Dirty Potter!
I really like your video and was going to assign it to a group of high school students.... Boy am I glad I listened to the very end! My students would have had something to say to me after they saw it! Wish I could edit the language at the end.
I try and keep it at the end for that reason. You can just stop and continue the video at whatever time Mark you want
thank you for this video! you are an amazing human!
Thank you so much! My art teacher cant even explain it like u did.
Im a beginer and loved your explanation
I have a project idea for ya teach. See, I'm a sweet tea swilling fool. I drink it all year long. I usually use quart canning jars because they are kinda perfect for it. Now that I'm a mud puppy, I am thinking how I can improve on the whole experience. This summer I am investigating what does and doesn't work. I'm thinking attached coaster/sweat catcher.
"The one's that don't work well, I give to people that annoy me." POTTER TIP! 🤣
Hell yes absolutely awesome tutorial I’m brand new at this soo I need all the help I can get
That really helped. Thank you
Hey, even us old potters can learn new tricks. Thanks :)
This vid was descriptive.... and ive watched at least 20 on pulling. 1st one ive bothered to comment on so thanks
0:59 so motivational! Woo
Thanks for this video. It helped clear out some things about how to use my hands properly and love your personality man! It really helps that you are so light and clever in what you say and teach, and not at all opressive like some teachers i have met in the past.
Again thank you and do keep posting!
Ill add you on instagram soon, when i finally get one, and post some of my pieces and check yours! :)
Love this dude
Yay, I'm a potter now, cause Donte said so! *happy dance* Seriously though, thank you for another great video! It has been so long since I have done this, I needed the refresher!
Stumbled on this one again on the side playlist, and guess what… I am a potter now for reals! Still much to learn but still. This video used to make laugh so much when you said that, now I’m like… damn right I am! Hahaha. 😂❤
😮. Aaamaaazing! Funny and so helpful!!! 🙏💜
You’re annoyingly funny I love your videos !!!! Hahahahaha thank you 😊
Love it and you make me laugh
It looks like at around 12:28 that your left leg tensed closer to the wheel. Was that so your left hand had more support? Or was it just a get more comfy kinda thing? You're a great instructor. Thanks for posting.
its funny how, as a machinist, i hear you describe "feed and speed" (rate of movement vs rate of rotation)... and yet... it took soooooo many tries to get a crappy cup, but once i got a cutting tool. now this is machining, smooth as a babies bottom.... just dont look inside. pottery is actually excellent for anyone who wants to use a lathe, the only difference is material. and steel lathes can kill you... that's something.
got better clarity of pulling...when you demonstrated by presing teh clay between thumb and finger thanks
i just want to tell you thank you
Thanks Dante! this really helped! Wish me luck in class on Tuesday!
Now you've got me wondering about the effect of the angle of your fingers. Are you literally making an incline plane (the angle of both your inner and outer fingers) that the clay rides up against, deflecting upwards as it hits them?
Keep making videos brother.
Thank you so much!!! You are great fun and instructive and extremly helpfull, so thank you!!! I only wish you wouldn't call us "dirty "...potters...
It's impossible to see the relationship of your inside fingers to your outside fingers. Are the outside fingers below the inside fingers, at the same level vertically, or above the inside fingers?
My inside fingers are generally above my outside fingers and it's very easy to feel which one is which without looking.
But if you wanted to look you just.... Literally look down the cylinder.
Ok I still didn’t get how to make the pot wider in the middle yet. Is it your fingers’ angle? Please explain
Yeah, first you pull the walls up then you angle your fingers on the inside of the pot while guiding it with the other hand/fingers on the outside
how many pounds of clay should I use ??
I tried to click onto the "centering" link, and it said "video unavailable."
How many lbs was this piece?
Dante, what icon is your link for your pottery pictures
The links should be in the description for pictures of my art.
💘👍
😅 hilarious!
You gotta like da spicy meat ball! :D
Why does your camera have astigmatism
Wow. That intro scared me. It was LOUD.
good video, but the music was very distracting while you were talking. hard to listen.
When you say you wet your inside and outside do you mean peeing your self inside and out
ahhahahaha R. Kelly style.... hahahaha
You’re pulling upwards
poop
Don't eat that
why are you so mean to that plastic bottle people spend days making that and when you throw that away you kill something. What the heck it wrong with you have common seance
Pulling clay for beginners... by... a beginner... To much bla bla... but spontanious... Anyhow. Have fun. Yet, I won't subscribe.
bye felicia 😉