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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.
Speaker: What is up my pottery shapers and welcome to Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. In this episode, in this lesson, I'm going to be talking about finding your own pulling style, a style that works for you because there's a ton of different pulling techniques out there and you should be finding one that works for you. Not one that works for somebody else, but one that works for you.
Speaker: When I first started pottery, I got taught a certain way how to make pottery. It was simple, kind of how I explained it. I used my left hand and my inside hand, my outside hand. Those two things didn't change, but when I first learned, I was taught to use a sponge and that
Speaker: Weigh kind of didn't really work for me. A sponge on my outside hand didn't work for me at the time. I was still kind of inexperienced. I couldn't find it for a while. It took me about a year, almost two years to find really a style that worked for me, a technique that worked for me. And there are tons of techniques out there.
Speaker: So I recommend is you want to really look at how potters are throwing. Look at their hands. What are they doing with their hands? Maybe it's the knuckle pool they're trying. Maybe it's the sponge with the look like they're doing a almost about a snap their fingers with a sponge. Maybe they're using their palm of their of their hand. So whatever it is that works for you, you got to find it.
Speaker: because it's different for everyone. But you have to find it because this is so key in order to really find a flow with your pottery. Because pottery is very difficult so we want to make it as easy as possible for ourselves. So that's why you need to find your style. If you find your style, then you're going to have a way better time.
Speaker: We hope you enjoyed this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Do you have questions about pottery that you'd like Nick to answer? Send them to us on Instagram at Nick Torres underscore pottery. We'll see you next time.
