So we are making our bottleneck vase and I have centered the clay, I have entered the
form and I have opened the form and now it is time to pull up the walls of the form and
for this again we get our hands wet and get the clay wet and I'm going to start at the
bottom of the form and I am going to pinch, I'm going to push in with this one and hold
my other finger on the inside of the pot. I'm going to squeeze the clay between the
two and then pull the clay up through the wall of the pot and you'll see while I am
doing this you can actually see the clay moving up the wall as I pull it up. You don't want
to force it, you want to have a steady hand and there we go, there's the first pull. Now
because we are throwing a bottleneck vase I'm just going to throw a straight up cylinder.
If I were throwing a bowl I would start to work these walls out as I was going. You will
feel it start catching, add a little bit more water and keep moving up. Now it is important
to not just stretch out the top because you want clay at the top of the pot and at the
bottom of the pot. You want this wall to be nice and uniform. There you can really see
the bubble of clay moving up through the cylinder. If it tries to get away from you, don't let
it. It is one of those commitment things. If the pot starts to wiggle around on you,
you have to take charge of it. Again getting that clay from the base and pulling it up
through the wall of the pot. You can see how pretty that looks and I'm going to do one
more along the walls, one more pull, get some water in there, my hands are starting to stick
to the inside edges. I want to get my whole hand wet so nothing throws this off.
You see that lump there that is going up through the pot. My inside finger is on the inside
of that lump. So now we have a nice straight cylinder that is going to be used for our
bottleneck vase. It is always important to get water out of the inside. We are doing
this now on this vase because we are going to close the top so we want as little water
in there as possible because when we are done we are not going to be able to get the water
out and we'll do that periodically throughout this process and now we are ready to move
to shaping throughout the form of this bottleneck vase and we are going to do that in the next
section.