your art teacher is a liar 😪

[@themidorihouse]

Let me be clear!! This video is only on hollow with no hole vs hollow with a hole. Shorts only allow 1 minute which means 30 seconds of this video and the caption are missing. I got on to explain teachers do not have the time to completely dry pieces which is why the hole is important. I suggest just putting a hole because, let’s be real, better safe than sorry. I also mention, size, clay body, kiln temp/schedule all effect the success of firing hollow. have a beautiful day go make some cute stuff ❤

[@mochipii]

I think you could actually explain it in this short video, but you talk too slow, and ramble on and on and just not get to the point.

[@themidorihouse]

@@mochipii thanks for the feedback 💖 this video was originally posted on other platforms that allow longer content and where the audience enjoys my yappin 😅

[@WildThyme69]

​@@mochipii Rude lol I love their voice and cadence

[@lemongrassass]

@@mochipii you’re a sad sad person

[@SarahJoErbil]

@@mochipiiwow that was so rude

[@partyinthecloudkingdom]

i think its more accurate to call it a misconception. teachers dont have the time to fully dry a piece before firing, they have a curriculum to keep up with

[@bonnie1303]

I also think they have a higher responsibility to _all_ of the students - they need to control the risk of a piece exploding, because the kiln is full of everybody’s work

[@ghintz2156]

Yep both responses are true! I've got three projects for sixty students most years.

[@breathoffreshair7795]

This- i became advanced at pottery and the teachers assistant , got to learn the details for this reason. After being responsible for loading the kiln and unloading the kiln after waiting days for a full load i totally understood why she didnt tell the kids that it wasnt truly necessary for forms to last

[@thisissshe]

Maybe but my art teacher also never explained additive and subtractive primary colors.. and I don’t care if that’s upper level art or not.. my primary colored paintings always looked like poop and when I asked her she never explained why.

[@M23js]

​@@thisissshemy art classes that used paint , uses cyan, magenta and yellow, titanium white, and black. In college I never used RBY. In ceramics, we were told "no kichy stuff".. nothing you can find in a lucky charms box. Therefore, no primary colors were available either.

[@Hazerot]

My art teacher told us that its only necessary to make a hole when the sculpture is 2 or more inches thick, otherwise she just forced us to wait longer than necessary for the clay to dry and then fire it

[@Ax-xo4ux]

Same here! All my ceramics and art teachers only told me to either hollow it out so it was less than 2 in thick and allow for FULL drying (over a week often) OR I could poke a few holes or make one big hole in the back

[@LittleMaitea]

My suspicion is that older / old school teachers are the one lying to their classes and now slowly (literally) dying off I see it at the school I work at most Millennial/ Gen Z teachers are more likely to tell their classes the truth While all Boomer teachers I met tend to tell quick lies to shut the kids up (GenX is a mostly mixed group) But GenZ/Millennial teachers actually have better results and get more respect in the end because fascinatingly children learn how to tell who is lying to them 😱 And even more fascinating is the fact they tend to listen more to people that don’t lie to them 😱😱😱

[@makani_rae]

The same here

[@tyblips]

Most times that's not an option and fighting with a kid to to explain that isn't worth it. Easier to lie

[@MrZAPPER1000]

@@tyblipsthis is why kids don’t trust lmao (I’m not saying you personally are creating the worlds problems, no hate)

[@girlnugget293]

My art teacher didnt tell us that they exploded, so a student made a hollow one to use less material and it exploded and took two other sculptures with it 😭

[@ms.pirate]

Should I laugh, or cry?

[@totallynothunter8]

​@@ms.pirateyes 😂😭

[@lun4r.st4rr]

This!! My artwork almost completely shattered because an eyeball exploded! It was a sculpture of a mimic from dnd for Halloween and it destroyed several other pieces my peers made 😢

[@halolighta]

​@@lun4r.st4rrofc it was some dnd kid who made it explode

[@soroh0062255]

And this is why we prefer all pieces have a hole. The pieces made in class are a one time project, fired with many many others. Having one piece explode and break others has consequences for multiple people. I'd much rather demand my students oke a hole in their work than have to console three others on their ruined work. Also our rooms don't have the best drying capacity. Even if we left them longer than technically needed there might still be some moisture in a couple pieces .

[@gillianjones6629]

Basically, there are 2 mutually exclusive truths: you can fire a hollow piece with no hole (if it's completely dry) and you can fire a piece that's not completely dry (if there are no air pockets). It's the closed space + mousture that leads to explosions because the moisture increases pressure in the space when heated. So the best practice is to dry the puece and leave space for moisture to escape, especually when your work is being fired with other peoples'.

[@thedistinguished5255]

best explanation in this comment section

[@kelseybarton]

i had to a professor fire an entire 25lb block of clay one time. he just dried it and fired realllllyyyyyy slow

[@douglasyoung927]

Yeah, we used to make ceramic bells. Basically put a small hollow sphere with no holes inside a larger sphere with holes in it and a loop for hanging it. They sound pretty wild and they tend to break after a while if you mess with them too much, but they always survived the kiln.

[@Space-Milk]

When you said "your art teacher is lying to you" i expected you to tell me my art was trash lol

[@jaquelinegarcia119]

Me 2 😂 LMAO

[@thecov3n]

nah because same

[@miliz5942]

Same HAHA

[@Nocturnal_Mee]

SAAAMME HAHA

[@mansurarahmanmeghla]

❤​@@jaquelinegarcia119

[@edenashkenazi7609]

It's the same with air bubbles. People are so worried about air bubbles but as long as the piece is completely dry before firing, it'll most likely be perfectly fine

[@tacocat6928]

My ceramics teacher told us that our projects need to have holes if they were hollow even if the hole is tiny because when the kiln heats up the air expands and the piece explodes

[@AgentLane13]

Air (and most gases or gas mixtures you're likely to encounter) is really compressible! Some pieces with weak walls may not be able to contain the higher air pressure but the air pressure isn't generally going to be a major deal just from a physics standpoint.

[@jonathanhibberd9983]

​@@AgentLane13plus there shouldn't be much of a pressure difference because the air around the piece would be roughly the same temperature as the air inside.

[@imfluffyandiknowitXD]

I thought the lie my art teacher told me was going to be that I'm good/have potential in the art world. I was prepared for the worst.

[@nottechytutorials]

Me too lol

[@Septixcake]

My art teacher somehow didn't like me even though I was one of the well behaved students in the class.I still am mad at her for giving me a 4 (C-) while everyone else was getting 1 and 2s (A/B) on a stupid picture of a fish

[@elirewasout]

My ceramics teacher taught us how to make hollow balls, I didn't realise people thought this. Can confirm, they do not explode without holes unless they're still wet.

[@littlesparkkitten]

Yeah it’s less actual ceramics teachers from what I’ve seen who told this lie or made this mistake depending on which it was, and more the general school teachers (K-12th) that said it. That’s because - as OP mentioned in a pinned comment and I believe in the full length video - art teachers who only have the students for a short time out of the whole school day sometimes not even every day have too much to teach to be able to wait until a piece that takes longer to dry is safely ready for the kiln. Glad your teacher knew better and taught better!/gen

[@Schirmchen1997]

I work with porcelain. Pieces can exploded becquse the air trapped inside expands in the heat and if tjwr is no airhole in your hollow piece there are only tree outcomes. 1. It will break open at the weakest point, 2. itself expands (actually happend once, was really funny) and 3. it creates so much force that it will in fact explode. But you are also right, not fully dried pirces may also expode because of the trapped water. It's importend to let thicker pieces dry out completly

[@themidorihouse]

Absolutely !! On other platforms I was able to go into more detail (this video had 30 more seconds and a full caption) I go over teachers not having enough time to let pieces properly dry. Also how clay body, firing temp and schedule will also have a huge impact on how pieces dry and fire with no hole! The big point is that air expands far less than water does so make sure your pieces are fully dry before firing !!!

[@Feathergirl14]

I never knew any art teacher in my life who was NOT lying. Man I'm so glad I never have to deal with high school art teachers again

[@lilmissmonsterrr]

This honestly just caused more confusion than clarification 😆

[@funtimes_ale123]

I have a question that relates to what art teachers say as well... How are your pieces fully glazed without sticking to the bottom of the kiln? My teacher always said that we had to leave the bottoms without glaze or it would stick to the kiln. But the pieces you showed look fully glazed? Do you paint them and not glaze them or something? (Ps. ❤❤❤ I love your pieces 🤩 they're so cute and adorable 🥰)

[@meganking7589]

My teacher was just trying to make sure everyone's peices survived! All the peices go in together and some kids care way more about thier work than others. When you're dealing with a bunch of dumbkids, it's best to er on the side of caution.

[@JadenKai]

My middle school and high school had no art teacher because they said the students didn’t appreciate the class enough so when the old art teachers retired they just turned the rooms into detention rooms, you could still see peoples paintings on the ceiling tiles.

[@jacksonk.2852]

I think that its because most art teachers have to buy their own equipment with a very low income so they dont want the chance of them exploding.. Plus they don't want the students that have the chance of their art being destroyed while possibly destroying other's art and then everyone being depressed

[@awkwardukulele6077]

Your teacher was lying to you” You mean… I WASN’T a pleasure to have in class?! 🥺

[@gurglequeen433]

"You're art teacher lied to you." Why did my mind immediatly assume you were just going to tell us our art just wasn't as good as the teacher would say it was?

[@mysticfire473]

I absolutely LOVED my ceramics teacher! I was the only student allowed to run the kiln. He was a Marine Veteran & really cared. I just looked it up, Mr. Sutton is still teaching ❤.

[@proverbialloaf]

The little Enoch is soooo cute!!

[@sakshisaini5326]

@Artistic_adornmentss

[@mcgawasaurous]

Your voice is so calming.

[@Temarah]

Thick pieces still need holes guys, she’s not negating that. She’s simply stating that if small hollow pieces are exploding, chances are they still have moisture in them. Pieces with moisture of any amount left in them and a hole are still more likely to explode than a completely dry pieces with no hole. The hole doesn’t matter on a piece that isn’t dried properly, it’s still more likely to explode.

[@QuirkyMemories]

They should just be honest and say what we don’t have is enough time to make hollow pieces… but if we leave it a few weeks and you’re happy to wait we can revisit these in another class! It would add so much enrichment to this class and they would gain perspective on the fact ceramics take TIME this lesson would help them understand the patience it takes and those who wait will be rewarded.

[@paytonmanning1109]

My old high school art teacher was a terrible person. To a point that nobody felt bad when her car was stolen by one of the students. 😭😭😭😭

[@pastamasta44]

they’re so cute omg

[@BassRemedy]

those little baubles are SO CUTE!!! i want one for my desk 🥺

[@maddylee5607]

As someone who studied ceramics and chemistry in college, I can confidently say it is much more likely that it has to do with the air expanding inside a hollow vessel when it’s in the hot kiln than how dry the pot it is when it goes into the kiln. The tiny shakers likely do not have enough trapped air to force it way out of the vessel, especially if the walls are on the thicker side. It can be a tiny hole, but the general rule is that a hole is necessary for a hollow vessel

[@themidorihouse]

I have kilned larger(I have a large kiln as well) smaller, thick, thin no problems!!

[@Emma_Elizabeth]

Enoch!! I love over the garden wall!! 🎃

[@ew_Tube07]

Thats what I was thinking😭😭 I was hoping someone noticed it too

[@v.4789]

It’s looks AMAZING but the sounds 🫠lol

[@Moonstone429]

I heard my sculpture teacher say this about two days ago, she's really chill and nice :3

[@themidorihouse]

Yippie for nice art teachers !!!

[@Dukedogdog]

Nah my art teacher was real af, if a piece shattered we held a funeral, if it ecploded and break other pieces we would point and scream MURDERER (at the art piece not the student, in fact the student would scold the pieces usually)

[@GuerrillaVanity]

it's a combination of it needing to be fully dry and the firing going to fast. If something is hollow, when you begin to fire it the residual moisture in the clay will essentially form steam within that space. That steam will want to expand at a rate much more than the clay itself so eventually if the pressure of the steam becomes greater than the vessel can withstand it will give and explode. If there's a small hole then it allows the steam to release and less pressure to build up. As long as your vessel has a sound structure and it was given enough time to air dry first, then it shouldn't matter.

[@ToaxtAnt]

yeeee as a ceramic student going into my second year in school it's a priority to add a hole just for safe measures, but yes if it's fully drynit has a less chance of exploding. But we add holes since we only have so much time for projects 😂

[@HUSKY_STUDIOS-ic5sf]

my middle school art teacher expected me to do my signature at the age of 12, like bruh and she also thinks i can do realism

[@doctormisfortune]

I remember spending weeks on my sculpture only for every piece in the kiln to explode. My friends piece was also in there so we got to share the pain. It sucks because we were both really into the project and put so much effort into it, the other students whose pieces exploded didn't care. I still wish I had taken pictures beforehand.

[@DelphineDenton]

My middle school art teacher basically told me that teaching me was a waste of effort. She was so mean to me no matter what I did. She's dead now. Thanks for saying this even if that's not what you meant.

[@LaughingStockArt]

My art teacher did not lie!!! HA She never told us anything about holes, actually lol. Love that woman. Though, the most brutally honest art teacher you'll ever meet. She's helped me learn so much over the years.

[@leiajiang7877]

What is this general hostility agaimst teachers online lol. Its always "school never taught u this, they lied to u about that".

[@PrettyPlainLife]

I'm going to be an art teacher next year! Glad to hear this. You have such cute art

[@juniussara9517]

a valid reason was also, if your piece does end up going boom boom, you will likely be the cause of another student's creation being destroyed

[@graceleonard9020]

My sculpture teacher called the hole the ash hole. He’s the best.

[@ShesProblematicTTV]

Na my high school art teacher was the best art teacher I ever had and accepted the fact that I loved drawing anime over other art forms and because of that they let me express and develop my art style through different mediums that I chose, rather than following the curriculum. He will forever have my respect because he let me thrive

[@BRINDANI2000]

I'm not a horrible artist doomed to be unable to complete something so simple as drawing two parallel lines!? You're so kind!

[@Varaksis]

My art teacher taught me somewhat of both? It was more a long the lines of, be sure that there aren't pockets of moisture inside your clay as that could not dry properly and cause an explosion ruining the piece. So what we did is we made sure to leave our clay pieces on a drying rack that didn't cook the clay, but allowed any excess moisture to dry. And none of our projects exploded except for a few people who don't listen.

[@maddy6764]

Well the air expands inside of the clay, many high school art teachers either don’t have the proper kilns to easily/efficiently do a preheat/candle which warms and drys the clay but keeps everything below boiling point until the heat can be ramped up. Once you have water or air in the clay that hits boiling point that rapid expansion is what makes the clay explode. To be safe I always load the kiln full of dry pottery and I pot the lowest element on low with 4 of the plug holes at the top unplugged (sometimes if I’m concerned I will prop open the lid) I’ll do that for 3 or 4 hours. Then the next day I will fire the kiln normally. This GREATLY cuts down on explosions.

[@IslanderT]

When I went to college and took ceramics, my professor told me my HS art teacher was wrong about this and I was very upset. But after working with kids, I get why they lie.

[@probablyapigeon]

I don't think my hs art teacher was lying when she said I was a tortured artist 😅

[@funtimegenshin6973]

Im glad my art teacher was completely honest about all this

[@jaredklapp2552]

I was always taught it was the water in general that made it explode but i also had a great art teacher

[@EddwardTheSeventhSpaceWizard]

My teacher told me it was because of water and hidden air pockets that pieces would explode. We were always allowed to make hollow pieces like yours but I was always too scared to lol so I always made “artistic” holes lol

[@gracestuurstraat4371]

this is cool to know. I work at a school and run the kilns, I'm fairly new to it so there's a lot to learn. And yes we always make sure student works have holes, which to be fair we can rarely leave works to completely dry just due to time constraints and volume of things that need firing so in the context of a highschool we do need the holes 😊 but for personal works this is nice to know!

[@themidorihouse]

absolutely !! In the full video I go on to explain schools just don’t have the time so just put a hole in it. What yall do is amazing!! Worth noting clay body, firing temp and speed will also play a part in your success firing hollow. Good luck have fun !!!

[@gracestuurstraat4371]

@themidorihouse thankyou! I love running the kilns and so far have had no incidents which feels so good but I'm loving finding out new things along the way about firing schedules and glazes and all that comes with working with clay

[@MJ33Ro]

We made some shakers in school, I still have mine! I love the paper stars ❤ ⭐️

[@JustJerseyJo95]

They're really cute!

[@ksexton6784]

I feel like my art didn't really lie to us. I think she just told us that because some people in class made really big or solid pieces and they would have taken weeks to dry completely (unlike the cute little pumpkin) and we only had the class for like 3 months. Either way I didn't know this so thanks for sharing! 😊

[@FrokenLagom]

Never had a hollow piece explode in school but a teacher once put in the wrong temperature on the kiln when we where firing after glacé. That had an interesting effect, all the pieces with a dark glacé melted completely, and the light was mostly ok, only the ones close to the heating elements got “bubbly”. I had a two piece set with a white koi and a black koi, the white was ok but the black was just a puddle. I hade a small clay version of a bigger sculpture in that firing, it was a heart and it stood near both the heating element and a classmates black sculpture so it got half black from the melted one and bubbly. I made the teacher a placard with the date of her failure and that we still loved her and gave her that together with the heart. She was a lovely teacher and she felt so bad for her mistake she actually cried when she told us about it, I don’t think anyone got genuinely angry at her. I was a bit sad and disappointed to lose a few pieces but we were all laughing at it in the end. She still had my gift on display in her office when I visited her a few years after I graduated 😂

[@rachelbarrido1602]

Your ceramic art style is amazing

[@sakshisaini5326]

@Artistic_adornmentss

[@TalhaKhan-l6j]

The stars are sooooo cute❤❤

[@Lizardtyong]

The reason is, the water inside the clay is easily trapped, and when it heats up during the firing process, the water boils and expands which can cause sculptures to crack or explode. Most art teachers don't have time to really explain how clay works in the short time they have to teach it, so most ask students to make hollow pieces and add holes so the pieces dry faster/let the water vapor escape. Even a hole the size of a needle can let that hot air out and save your piece.

[@mamabear9646]

My high school art teacher was evil and said nothing nice except maybe twice. Kinda endearing in a way

[@aFanofArttt]

aww!! they’re adorable!🥹💖 If only I have a kiln at home, I would make a million of these babies🤣✨Good work!

[@RememberPluto]

Those stars are freaking cute.

[@sakshisaini5326]

@Artistic_adornmentss

[@lunoxmain4737]

Sooooo adorable 😍 I love how they turned out! Keep it up! Just seeing your creations made me happy ❤

[@themidorihouse]

thank you 😭💖

[@emileestewart9931]

Air bubbles are weak points in the pieces. They’re more prone to cracking while air drying, in the bisk or during glaze cuz the inside dryers slower than the outside without a hole. And with Raku firing the risk of cracking is even higher (which is why hallow pieces need a bigger hole for Raku). but even tho there’s risk it doesn’t mean it’s not possible. 👍🏻

[@GamerRabbit014]

The pumpkins reminded me of the pumpkin people from over the garden wall

[@badtzsmile]

The enoch pumpkin shaker is adorable!

[@CharlotteG5678]

I was told hollow pieces need holes because the air inside gets hot and it’ll build pressure and when you have the hole the pressure can escape and it won’t explode

[@Master.dobby69]

Haven't had mine explode but my art teacher said it's because of air bubbles. The air needs to go somewhere whilst being fired and if you have an air bubble in your piece it will explode or a piece of the sculpture will come of where the air bubble was. Seen it happen to my peers plenty of times.

[@justgotserious9124]

Just from this, the teacher was technically correct and wasn't lying.

[@Kats_Crap]

Actually my teacher told me that tiny bubbles from not wedging properly or uneven drying causes explosions. She was the realest person I’ve ever met

[@martemil1403]

My high school was an art school (not American, different school system) never heard of this lie. The first time we did an actual sculpture the teacher immediately teached us that before cooking it we neeed to make sure that while we worked to not leave air bubbles inside the sculpture (or it would break while cooking), make it hollow and let it dry completely. Never had to make holes, but interesting to discover this now

[@Stuffed_Rat]

You could do something similar to some snowpants! Have the tighter under layer for the tics and a loose over layer to cover the cinch.

[@thatonellamawhoissoobsesse8138]

If you make a large piece with complex hollow shapes (ESPECIALLY TUBES) then it will explode not from it being too wet but the air expansion, how I fixed that wasnt with holes but rather just preheating the clay

[@Yukki._.]

I made a bird the size of my hand as my first clay thingy ever- fatass thing with no hollowing cause I didn’t know how to do that- about as huge as that star but no exploding… so- I guess I’m pretty pro 😂

[@ForReal_Lauren]

That pumpkin shaker reminds me of Over the Garden Wall. 🖤 Enoch and the other folks in Pottsfield. (Then, to find out Enoch was just the black cat 🐈‍⬛️ 😅) That would be so cute, to see you make another pumpkin shaker with a black cat popping out 🖤

[@themidorihouse]

I love this idea 💖 the pumpkin is based off of Enoch !!

[@ForReal_Lauren]

@themidorihouse Ahhhh!!! I knew I recognized it!!! It looks SOOOOO adorable!! OTGW is one of my all-time favorite comfort shows 🖤🖤🖤 Your little Enoch pumpkin is soooooooo stinkin cute!!! I can't wait to see everything you make for this year and for spooky season! 🖤🐈‍⬛️🫶🐈‍⬛️🖤

[@iamghost34]

My art teacher told us that they would explode if it was too thick with no hole. She was right. Two of the boys in my class that year didn't listen; everyone's things were being fired at the same time, aswell as a few projects from another class. The two items made by those them exploded and took out more than half of the things in the kiln. Almost everything had some level of damage if it wasn't completely destroyed.

[@gaslightedcorn8311]

You don’t have to have a hole in any piece, but without it, the drying process would take way longer (for bigger pieces at least). What causes the ceramic to explode is moisture and air pockets, not the lack of hollowness

[@Mooon76523]

My high school art teacher completely killed my inspiration for art. Ever since I’ve graduated my art has been so much better! My advice to people in school is don’t listen to those teachers, do your own research! Experiment with everything! The world is your canvas!

[@savannaridgway2330]

I made an old fashion TV once. Hollow in the middle, I put two clay balls wrapped in paper towels inside so when it got fired in a kiln, it burnt the paper away. I glazed the outside, I didn’t put any holes in it, and it didn’t explode. I just have a really cool box TV with balls inside it so jingles.

[@Bubbles2cute4u]

This actually helps a lot! My mom and grandma have kilns and i want to make pieces that dint crack, sometimes they crack during the drying and i feel like slip is the solution. But those are so cute! I usually make like cups or stuff with a whole already involved. Also when ot co.es to clay like that you have to have sure there arebt air bubbles from mashing it and restarting a project, its theaor bubble that causes the big problem.

[@sarahpyro]

There was a guy in my class that intentionally made a super thick piece with little balls on the outside as "decoration". We fired it with everything else and it exploded and took out everything on that shelf. He wanted to see if it would actually explode and added the balls as projectiles. He intentionally destroyed good pieces and didn't care. From there on, everything he made was double checked and on its own shelf. If people got upset it took longer to fire their piece, we just looked at him

[@FinaLilium]

My art teacher fully gave me special treatment, I was months behind everyone else but I’m a perfectionist and so when I wanted to make something I had to make it the way I envisioned it, she told me some of my projects were the most complex she’d seen in her class and she ended up not only passing me but also gave me an award of excellence for it. She was awesome and cared about quality over quantity.

[@ShrillyGlitch]

My art teacher told me i would go nowhere in life if I can't make a cereal bowl with 3 different designs from basically sctratch in 4 days! Glad to know she was lying to me!

[@sabrinakamps9184]

I remember having teachers tell me it's not gonna work or it's going to explode and i did it anyway and always proved them wrong. Even if i only took one sculpture class and never touched clay before that. Same thing for my other art classes though. I'd always prove them wrong when i would be told it won't work.

[@PandorasReachAM]

Basically any moisture left in the clay will cause the piece to crack, break, or explode. You wanna make sure your piece is completely dried before firing it

[@J-R-2000]

For me, she just mentioned that it can cause cracks or some integrity to weaken because of uneven thickness of a piece.

[@Crystal-sapphire.]

Mine told us all about how to make pottery, she never lied and I now can make such cute things 🥰

[@theinquisitivecritter]

Ive never had an art teacher say that

[@vonvonkarmz]

very important but the stars are so cute!!!

[@Mercygrim96]

As an art teacher i dont even let them make something hollow, we just dont have the time, but i do tell them how they could make it if theyre ever interested 😊

[@GrandpaCremate]

One year someone's art did explode in the cilm and ruined some of the other students ceramics. It was sad.

[@JumbleOfPugs]

My ceramics teacher had a general rule of thumb where if a piece was thicker then your thumb then it likely needed to be hollowed out and a hole added if it wasn't going to be open somewhere. Though I do honestly agree with always adding a hole if it's hollow just cause better safe then sorry though usually I'll do it very tiny and in a very hidden area or on the bottom so that it isn't noticeable.

[@rosegraham5780]

Theyre all so cute ❤

[@ashchan30]

These are SO CUTE

[@mr.wolfedits]

My art teacher told us if you make something hollow then you have to let it dry completely. Also I was the only one in my class and the other classes that could make pots on the wheel. Everyone stuck to making things by hand so I didn't have to go by that rule. Man I miss those days😢

[@simplyart7756]

I can say, this is true. My art teacher used me as a student art teacher and told me this fact, but because she had each class full of 20 kids, she decided to let us do nothing hallow

[@RavenTheElder]

The fear of exploding ceramics has 1000% kept me from pursuing the medium. I love sculpting, and have scratched that itch with polymer clay, but I do miss working with real clay from time to time 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@luna.7193]

When I was in art in 12th grade, a sculpture exploded and damaged all of the other pieces that were being fired with it. I can’t remember why it exploded but it wasn’t “there was no hole”. I think it was because the clay was too wet when the student placed it in there. He didn’t listen to our teacher who told us that it needed to dry out before being fired. He placed it in super wet.

[@someveryburnttoasty]

My high school art teacher told us that we only needed holes if the clay was too thick. Otherwise we could just dry it and put it in the kiln

[@danabananaz]

Everything is so cute!!!! Omg!

[@sakshisaini5326]

@Artistic_adornmentss