So there are a couple additional steps you mean that you will need to take with your pictures if you don't plan on trimming them in the traditional sense of flipping them upside down and trimming them, just like I talked about with this one that we threw over here, and how I trimmed a lot of excess clay away and then I threw that foot down. So it already has a finished look to it, the foot has been added on to it. But like we talked about in the beginning, when we talked about trimming, the importance of trimming is removing a lot of that excess clay from the bottom because as the pieces begin to shrink and constrict and cause that bottom to bubble out and give your your vessel a wobble, so we need to address that. And we also want to make sure that we don't have any hard edges underneath it that we can't see.

So, what we need to do to create a giveaway finish fills this vessel, if we're not going to do It is its main cutaway. First thing I'm going to do is just grab it and roll it around my bat. And this is going to round that foot and eliminate any of those hard edges because even those hard edges like to chip they like to crack, things like that it's also gonna be rounded. So as this pitcher if you set it down a little uneven, it's just gonna roll into position and we can take it, flip it upside down and take a look at our bottom. Clean up this foot, just a damp sponge. Take our metal rib, smooth out any marks we may have here.

Now if you're going to put any dance or cutouts or play with a foot, anything like that, now would be the time to do it. move that out. Now this next step is very important, probably one of the most important steps of doing this type of technique where you're not gonna actually be flipping this upside down and trimming and removing this excess click, and that is to come in and just give the base of your piece a little tap. The clay is still soft, soft enough, it should have been pretty easy, and might have been exaggerated a little bit for our purposes today that you can see. So if you look at that, now it has a slight concave to it. And that's important because as this piece dries and it starts to shrink, that's going to, it's not gonna allow this bottom the pop out and create that bubble at the base of the piece.

And that's what creates those wobbles. That tap is very important. So again, that you're going to come along forms that you may not necessarily want to trim, even if it's maybe a small glass, you know, small little sipping glass or picture like this or more exaggerated shapes that have a delicate rim or something that's going to be difficult to trim. Make sure you give them that little bit of tap before you clean them up. And then sign and now we don't need to trim our piece. Now we'll come along and add our handle and we will have a completed picture.