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#141 Creating Distant Spaces With Your Pottery
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What is up Shaping Nation on this episode of Shaping Your Pottery I am talking about creating distant spaces with your pottery
You will learn how to create these distant spaces how adding distant spaces can make your pottery look that much better
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Discover Your Pottery Voice
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Hey, if you would like to discover what your unique pottery voice is, I put together a free quiz that you can take to help you discover what your pottery voice is. It's a quick four question quiz. All you have to do to take it is go to shapingapottery.com forward slash quiz, or you can go simply go to shapingapottery.com. It'll be right there on the top. I'll see you guys in there.
Introduction to 'Shaping Your Pottery'
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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.
Cultural Influence on Pottery: Ben Carter in Shanghai
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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 distant spaces.
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You see I just had a really great conversation with Ben Carter and one of the things that helped him with developing his voice
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was his time when he spent in Shanghai, China. You see, he had a really great opportunity to pretty much be a resident artist in Shanghai and he was teaching a lot of workshops over there in Shanghai and he just got to be around a lot of other potters in a really new environment.
Incorporating Distant Spaces in Pottery Design
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The way he was explaining the story was that
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in china i guess there's like these these scrolls these really large scroll like art paintings and basically he was explaining so there's a big really big mountain in the background and then there would be a tiny person about an inch tall maybe and he he began explaining how
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Thinking about distance and the way you make your pottery or your designs on how you make your designs is really crucial to filling distance spaces. So it makes it have some depth into your pottery. And this is a really, really, really good technique for anyone trying to add a little bit more flair to the pottery, a little bit more personality, a little bit
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be able to fill up spaces into your pottery. So let's say for example you are carving, let's say you're carving a car and it's going down or it's on a road. You can make the car just flat go straight across the pot that you have made.
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or you could try adding some distant space into it. Make it look like it's going into the pot instead of just going alongside of it. What do you think that would do to your party? Look like how much better that would look just by simply adding in those little things.
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Instead of you adding all the same size pieces, what if you add one large tree in one area and then you add smaller trees in the background? So it makes it look like it's getting further and further away and it keeps on going in that way.
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And what if you use colors in a different way? Where you are using the bright colors up front and then you're using the more timid colors, the more gray, darker colors in the back.
Enhancing Pottery with Distance Techniques
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If you think about it this way, your pottery is going to show up and grow a lot better because you are putting distance into your pottery. You're feeling that distance to where it's not such empty space.
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If you are able to really think in terms of like distance.
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and fill up that empty space using distance, your pottery is gonna look so much better. I tell you this, I plan on trying to use this as well for my pottery that I'm working on right now. And I think this is a really great way to help you develop a unique style with your pottery simply by adding distance into your pottery and adding some effects into your pottery that make it look like we are actually looking at something in real life.
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Like for example, Ben gave another example, if like you're looking at the Grand Canyon, the further and further away you look at the Grand Canyon, the smaller it gets. But when you're really close to the Grand Canyon, it looks huge. So how can you do the same thing with your pottery? How can you add some distance into your pottery so you are giving it a little bit more of a more natural feel and filling up those empty spaces.
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I hope this episode was valued to you and I hope you start trying to incorporate this adding distance into your pottery because I truly believe that this can really change how your pottery will look like.