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Now one way of taking your slab and making it into a form is called hump molding. You
have a hump of something. It can be plaster, it can be wood, it can be something that you
threw on the wheel and then bisqued. It can be a number of different things. But once
you have a form that you are interested in making into a piece, you take your prepared
slab, it can have texture, or it can be smooth, whatever you prefer. You lay it right on your
hump mold. Center it, make it be so it's going to fit that mold well. And you can buy a fancy
wooden paddle at the clay store or you can just get a piece of wood. Either way works
just fine. And once you've got it on that mold, you just paddle it into the shape. Gently,
you don't want to destroy your texture, but you do want to get the shape of that mold.
And once you've got that paddled, you just cut off the excess clay and now you can let
it dry to be a just a dish without feet, or you can add feet to the bottom of it right
here. And that's what I'm going to show you next.