your art teacher is a liar 😪 #ceramics #artclass #artteacherlife

[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 ❤

[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

[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

[girlnugget]

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 😭

[Space-Milk]

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

[gillianjones]

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'.

[edenashkenazi]

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

[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.

[tacocat]

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

[Angelya]

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

[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.

[lilmissmonsterrr]

This honestly just caused more confusion than clarification 😆

[meganking]

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.

[PondueFllower]

That makes me think my art teacher actually dropped my snowman that was Xmas gift for my gma in highschool and not that it exploded.... because nothing else in the kiln was damaged 😢

[queenwaterwolf]

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!

[mysticfire]

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 ❤.

[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.

[samginnelly]

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.

[v.]

It’s looks AMAZING but the sounds 🫠lol

[Ari-vgoc]

Mine either waited for them to dry completely or had us poke a hole if it's hollow (Which I did for one of my final pieces in our pottery unit bc it would've taken at least two weeks to dry had I not hollowed it out)