attempting checkerboard pottery

[@annieothername]

You’re an amazing teacher precisely because you make it look easy while terrified! It made me chuckle when you put the “terrified rn” text on screen, it felt like I was back in a studio room with a humanistic instructor, it was a sweet thing to see. Thank you for showcasing your skill (and artistic fear!) with us!

[@PotterytothePeople]

aww that is so nice to hear! i am nervous how my pottery will turn out 100% of the time haha

[@vzeimen]

For this particular pattern I think I would have just taken up the squares I didn't want and then laid the solid clay over the squares left on the board so that you'd be rolling over the background color which I think might give a more perfectly even design maybe less smearing. Just a thought. I'm definitely going to try this.

[@Cate7451]

How did it go?

[@rustyshackleford1910]

@@Cate7451they didn’t try it, I doubt they even work with clay at all. You got bamboozled

[@haileyelianna4978]

This works best with nerikomi. Hard to avoid smudging if you’re rolling one clay piece into another pieces

[@denisenoble4010]

I love to watch your videos, and especially when your trying something out, your reaction is wonderful, like a kid in a sweet shop who can get whatever you want, please keep sharing your ideas, it's refreshing to see a potter that is still in ore at what you do. Thank you x

[@PotterytothePeople]

What a lovely message! Thank you so much ❤️

[@krissader4855]

Thank you for these two great videos comparing inlay and nerikomi.

[@ladyw6773]

Those look so great! And I really like how you made alternates - dark on light and light on dark 💜

[@PotterytothePeople]

thank you!! ❤️

[@walkerpottery9296-Natalie]

Super cool! Endless possibilities - your videos are such an amazing source of inspiration to me. Thank you 💜

[@PotterytothePeople]

You are so welcome!

[@micheledickey4066]

Awesome. Since you are only using the squares for the look, making them thin will help with the distortion. You could also just have cut the background clay as well and pieces it together then put it all on a thinner slab. But very cool.

[@PotterytothePeople]

That's a great idea!

[@micheledickey4066]

@@PotterytothePeople Thanks. The only reason I know this is because I used to use polymer clay and that’s how I did it.

[@alans1816]

I wonder how the distortion would compare if you laid out the squares on a smooth (paper?) surface, and put the continuous layer on top. The rolling pin might spread the top layer more. If the squares were just slightly drier than the continuous layer, they might spread less, but still stick. Thanks for showing us. It looks great, and provides lots of food for thought.

[@PotterytothePeople]

Interesting ideas! Let us know if you do any experiments with it, how it turns out!

[@barbarab285]

Excellent job showing and explaining the process. Thanks.

[@PotterytothePeople]

thank you! ❤️

[@brickellvoss7739]

just found your channel! I love the way you present information! Thank you. I'm hoping to collect natural clay and eventually make my own outdoor kiln at some point so i'm enjoying absorbing your information thank you so much for making this channel!

[@LunovaLabs]

So cool. I want to try this!

[@PotterytothePeople]

Go for it!

[@soymajit]

Thanks for sharing ❤

[@lauriegagnon2614]

Love the idea. I have light colored and black clay. I am going to experiment. Thanks for show tbis great idea.

[@PotterytothePeople]

good luck! Just make sure they are the same temp clays ;) I forgot to mention that part in the video!

[@artshaman]

Pretty cool results! Congratulations and thanks for sharing!

[@PotterytothePeople]

Thank you!!

[@ShinyFeral]

I've seen bakers wrap dough in parchment so that they can roll it out to have straight edges and sharper corners. Do you think that would work with clay so you would have less waste and a bigger piece to work with? I'm not a potter but I love your videos. - And WOW! That came out soooo cool!

[@whitewolf9299]

Do you think there would be less distortion if you had flipped it so the inlays were down when rolling?

[@nickb8791]

Sweet! Oh hey back in like 2018/2019 I made a ceramic checkerboard I planned on using as a boardgame. Measuring evenly was torture LOL. Eventually one day at home, it cracked. MAYBE I will make a new one....MAYBE. Until then, this was cool!

[@PotterytothePeople]

haha devastating! but sounds like a cool project :)

[@nickb8791]

@@PotterytothePeople yeah it was definitely interesting

[@jsud5559]

You are such fun to watch!! Thanks so much❣️

[@PotterytothePeople]

Thanks so much!! ❤️

[@aniou8126]

Hi - what does bisque mean? Also would you have gotten less distortion if you had cut out an equal number of lighter squares and made an actual grid instead of rolling the darker ones into the lighter background?

[@ziggyzagg9]

This is awesome!

[@franmiller6928]

Where did you get the big rolling pin?

[@Cate7451]

I think for light smearing I would take a damp sponge and wipe the smear gently to its Color. You could Lao slip over the smear.

[@CynD222]

Can you tell me what your board is made of? Every time I roll clay it sticks onto my surface. Thank you!

[@PotterytothePeople]

it’s canvas wrapped around a wooden board 😄

[@pamdorneman888]

Very cool .I assume you want to have really soft clay? Or does slightly stiffer give cleaner lines? Need to give it a try, thanks

[@PotterytothePeople]

The clay was 'fresh from the bag' so soft but not overly soft. I think stiffer clay will have a harder time blending together, but might give you crisper lines! Something to experiment with :)

[@udobodrum]

❤️🙏✨💫🪄🔥 Thank you

[@broski9938]

I'm an artist before being a potter and this vid makes me really wanna try doing some of my illustrations with this technique! Don't even do handbuilding lol

[@PotterytothePeople]

yesss there are so many amazing artists using this technique to do just that! I want to try it too :)

[@jessicashu982]

Great video! One question: Where do you get those thickness gauges? I've been using some wooden dowels from Home Depot, but they're not as nice.

[@PotterytothePeople]

they are also just from our local hardware store 🙃

[@nezbut7]

so beautiful

[@Handmadebygas]

Super cute 😊

[@PotterytothePeople]

thank you!

[@fuvicky1692]

Beautiful❤

[@somegreenlife249]

So cool! Werde ich mal ausprobieren :-)

[@PotterytothePeople]

Mach es! ❤️

[@adedaelami2528]

Nice dharing my friend mezing

[@ruolbu]

Väter, emanzipiert euch! XD Nice results.