 So today we're talking about throwing bowls. That bowl is made with just my hands. So I'm going to show you how to make a shallow bowl with just your hands, how I got there, and then I'm going to show you how to make one with a big fancy grip. So let's make a bowl with my hands. So this is centered, you don't want to watch me center, right? And I'm going to open it and pull my finger to the palm of my left hand and go up and get some height. Now this is a shallow bowl, so I've left a wide base. If I want a wide base something, I center to a wide base and I wanted a wide base on this, so I'd have to wide base. I'm going to open this up. I'll give it one more pull and then I'll open it up into a bowl. I'm going to leave the top edge of this fairly thick because I'm going to open it up and that thick edge is going to get thinner. But now my pressures are straight across from each other and if you want the clay to go out, you gently coats the clay out. I like when I'm throwing a bowl to do what I just did. What I do is I have opposite pressures, my sponge on the inside and my fingertips on the outside and they're just working together to make a nice even wall. I'm also going to go down and I'm going to make a nice join where the bottom joins the wall of my pot. I really don't like a right angle at the bottom of the pot because one, it just looks funny. And in a bowl, if you've got a right angle in there, it's going to catch a lot of kitchen smudge. That's technical pottery talk. So I just want to make sure that it has a nice curve to it, that the wall joins nicely to the bottom of the bowl and I'm going to tidy up my bottom, give it some sponging and compact back dye. And I like a kitchen bowl because this is going to be a kitchen bowl. So it's going to go in the kitchen. It's going to be used a lot. I like a sturdier rim on a bowl. They last a lot longer and I compacted the particles and that's a nice chip resistant, sturdy kitchen bowl made to be used in the kitchen. I've got a metal wire. I just got a skinny wire tied between two clothes pins and I'm going to cut that off. I'm going to cut that off and I leave it on the back because it's very soft. I couldn't pick it up now and work with it. So there's a bowl made with my hands. You're going to stop for a second here and I come back and make one with my big fancy rib. Okay, so this bowl I'm going to make with the rib. If you start off the same way as the other bowl that's centered I'm going to open it and pull my fingers toward the palm of my left hand. Both hands are going to go up. Again, this is going to be a shellable so the base is fairly wide. Give it a few pulls leaving the top a little thick so when you stretch it open you've got some top there. I'll give it one more and then I'll go in and clean up the bottom and then use my rib. Now I call it a perfect profile rib because when it goes down in there I really don't like it as I said in the other bowl when the wall and the foot and the bottom join at the right angle you want a nice sloping perfect profile. So I'm going to start with this at a 45 degree angle and then once I've got my elbows on my knees and I'm going to hold it this thing and I'm joining, this is nice and thick here it's three quarters of an inch thick and I'm just going to go down and I'm going to go down at a 45 degree angle a little bit at a time. You can see there how now it's a nice join it's a nice join from the wall to the bottom of the bowl I'm going to give it a a little bit of a throw this clay has been opened up very quickly so the particles like to splay open and giving a throw is kind of compacts them all back down again. One more with the this is the fun thing about this rib you can open it right up to as big as you want I did a short where I did just that it's in the links below anyway so there we are shallow bowl I mentioned when I was showing the bowl with just my hands I do like the last movement to do is to go in and just kind of give it some support the insides not as tidy as I would like I'm going to tidy that up and there we go if you like watching me make bowls and you want to see me make more bowls because I like making bowls please hit the like and subscribe if you have any questions or comments leave them in the comments section below and thanks ever so much for watching