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Speaker: If you love pottery and want to take your skills to the next level, you're in the right place. Find your own pottery style right here on Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Let's get started. What is up, Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres here. And on this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, I'm going to be talking about not doing too much to your work.
Speaker: and how this is really beneficial for you to help you discover your voice and help you get really good at making certain things. I just had a really great interview with Lindy Beal. And in this episode, one of the things that Lindy was talking about was not doing too much to her pottery. And she goes on to say how like, how she struggles with like how she sometimes she just wants to add, keep on adding things and adding things.
Speaker: then she said that i have to practice not doing too much to my pottery so that it comes out the way i want it and it comes out better in my mind and i thought that was so fascinating and so beneficial to you guys to help you guys discover your voice here's why i think this is super beneficial because sometimes
Speaker: We are all going about making pottery and we all want to add all these different things, all these kinds of things, all these techniques into our pottery.
Speaker: And we end up getting a big jumble of a mess because we're adding so much and so many things all at once into our style, into our pottery. But sometimes we need to take a step back a little bit so that we're not making a jumbled mess with our pottery. Think of it like this. Let's say you are cooking some ground beef or just maybe cooking anything.
Speaker: And you start adding in all these different seasonings and you maybe have like seven to 10 different seasonings in there. What's going to happen to the food if you add all those seasonings? Well.
Speaker: Your food's going to taste really, really salty probably and it's going to be a big jumbled mess into your mouth. And it's the same thing with our pottery. If we do too much to our pottery, then your voice doesn't really show up. It just has too many styles, too many things going on all at once. But instead, if we learn to take a step back and really just focus on in on a couple of things that we want to add to our pottery and not going overboard with it,
Speaker: And our voice is gonna show up a lot better. Not only that, we're gonna get better at the things that we're making because we're focusing in on a few things rather than going really, really broad about everything and trying to add everything into your pottery. So maybe if you like to say, let's say you like making animal themed pottery. And in this animal themed pottery, you add carvings, and then you add a bunch of glazes, and then you add some sculptures onto it.
Speaker: See that is too much going on all at once. You have to narrow it down a little bit. You can have one to two different techniques at once, in my opinion.
Speaker: And then once you get good at that, try to figure out different ways to improve it as well as you go along and get better and better. That's why it's important to not do too much to your pottery so that you can focus in on what is working and get better at making things look simple. If we go too overboard, it's like adding a bunch of seasoning into your food and it just becomes a jumbled mess.
Speaker: So keep things simple, don't go overboard, and I hope this episode brought you value. Hey, thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. If you enjoy this episode and you would like to learn how to discover your own unique voice with your pottery, I put together a free quiz to help you guys discover your own unique voice.
Speaker: All you have to do to take this quiz, it's very short, it's 30 seconds long, four questions. All you have to do to take this quiz is go to shapingyourpodder .com forward slash quiz to go start taking this quiz or you can just simply go to shapingyourpodder .com and be right at the top. I'll see you guys next time.
