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It's week three here at Gladstone,

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as our ten remaining potters face

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a feathery challenge that is often
associated with some

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other famous cobbles.

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This week we're going all retro
as our potters make a trio

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of flying birds.

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Welcome to The Great Pottery
Throwdown.

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Good morning. Sup.

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Last time, the potters slab-built
ornamental keepsake boxes...

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Don't mind me, I'm just judging you.

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..and felt their way...

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Where? What?

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..through a blind
throwdown challenge.

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Torture, pottery torture.

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And while Caitlin's backpack
secured her Potter Of The Week...

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Caitlin.

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..Fabiola's dancing daughters lost
their heads.

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So heads and a bit of arm...

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But it was Fliss's wave
that broke too soon...

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Two cracks, yeah.

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..as she became the second potter
to leave the competition.

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Oh, wow.

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This time, Retro Week sees
our potters face a trio...

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I just have one bird, great.

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..of hand-built birds...

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Feel a bit unnerved by them
and their beady eye.

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..and things heat up with a vintage

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hot water bottle throwdown.

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Oh, God, it's just hard.

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Who will soar...

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They're almost, dare I say,
perfect to the brief.

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..and who will have to flee the
nest?

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Yeah, well done.

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Making Time
by The Creation

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The Bird's The Word
by The Rivingtons

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Our fledging potters are back
to take on a classic challenge.

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Week three. I'm feeling very happy
to be here today.

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Another day in pottery paradise.

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We are doing a trio of birds
this week.

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This is exciting.

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I mean, I love birds, but I've never
made any birds before.

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As long as they've got an eye, two
wings, beak, then it's a good day.

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Welcome back, potters.

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For your main challenge this week,

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the judges would
like you to hand build

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a trio of flying birds.

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Now, the birds should be inspired by
some place you want to fly away to,

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but not just yet.
At least finish the challenge.

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Rich, any advice for our potters?

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The original flying ducks were made
in the 1930s by Beswick Pottery

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right here, in Stoke-on-Trent.

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Your birds can be in your own style.

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Keep them realistic and accurate.

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Each of your birds needs
to be of a different size,

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so when it comes to judging,
they gain perspective,

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and ensure they can be secured
on that judging wall,

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so careful planning is definitely
needed.

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Potters, you have five and a half
hours, and your time starts now.

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This is a bit nerve-wracking.

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This is a challenge that I wasn't
looking forward to.

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I mean, I have never done a bird.

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I'm a little bit unnerved by them

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and their beady eye.

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I'm really excited about making
these guys.

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It's like a homage to Beswick,
which is really cool.

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In continuous production from 1938
to 1973, the Beswick flying ducks

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are icons of 20th-century design
and remain highly collectable.

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So our potters have a lot
to live up to.

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Just getting the complexity
in there, the detail through, making

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it really look realistic...

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Could quite easily look
like they're just cartoons.

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I'm soaring, I'm flying,
I'm winging it!

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No.

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Retro Week. Keith, I reckon it's got
to be right up your street.

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We all remember that iconic
three ducks on the wall.

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We're lucky to have one here.

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It's just going to be fascinating
to see our potters' take on it.

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We want those three sizes -

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further-away bird, nearer bird
and even-nearer bird.

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I want to see a fairly shallow
profile, and yet real depth created.

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This is a great example.

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They've just used that low relief,
which is just taking material away,

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creating texture and using
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the illusion of much more depth.

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But also, they've got to stick
on the wall.

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These guys have used a little nubbin
on the inside.

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This one on here, it's just got
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has really thought about where
that centre of gravity is.

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They have to look spectacular
because they're going

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to be in your house, on your wall
for a long period of time.

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Who's going to be flying high
in The Pottery this week?

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Hello, Derek. Hi, Derek.
Sorry, Siobhan, is that...

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Blinded!

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How many of those jackets
do you have, then? I've got a few.

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It hides the desperate dark inside.

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So, tell us about your birds.

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I'm doing three herring gulls
cos I like seagulls.

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And each one of them is stealing
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an ice-cream cone, a chip,
and some candy floss.

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I didn't realise,
but seagulls, they salivate.

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I'm salivating over this Flake.

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Derek's penchant for this
oft-maligned sea bird is born

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out of childhood summers
spent by the sea

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in Portrush, Northern Ireland.

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He'll depict his smooth-feathered
gulls mid-theft,

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making
off with a selection of booty,

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which he'll attach
as separate sculptural forms.

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It's quite a sleek bird
and it's quite a grey bird,

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so there's challenges there,

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but there's quite a lot of colour
in the beak,

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things like the ice cream,
and the pink candy floss.

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Well, look, good luck with it all.

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I hope all the appendages stick...
Don't touch my ice cream!

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Buy your own.
Seagull, you see - seagull DNA!

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Whilst Derek's gulls
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Helen's flying to the other side
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for something more colourful.

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So I've chosen galahs.

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But you have to say...
..galahs.

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If you're in Australia,
they are also

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a phrase for someone who's
a bit of a twit.

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Ya flamin' galah!

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Helen encountered her first galah
on a year-long trip to Oz in 1987.

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She'll use under-glazes
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and grey colouring, and add
small spiky coils of clay

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to form their crest.

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Why do Australians say
"flaming galah"?

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It's probably when they barbecue
them, don't you reckon?

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Like Helen, Rebecca's also
taken her inspiration

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from down under.

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My trio of birds are rainbow
lorikeets.

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So these three are flying
to Australia.

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Baby Bird, Mummy Bird, that's me.

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This one's going to be looking
back to England,

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and then we've got Daddy Bird,
which is my husband,

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who's not really bothered
about much.

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He's just off on his way.

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Rebecca, son Henry, and husband
Laurence have just returned

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after five years of living in Oz.

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By looking back, her Mummy Bird
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which brought them back to the UK.

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I like the fact that you've got
a nod to a story. Yeah.

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What's the difference between
lorikeets and parakeets?

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There's a LORRA lorikeets.
A LORRA Lorikeets?

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Disgusted with me? Yeah.

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Most of the potters have rolled
slabs of clay...

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They nearly all been built as slabs

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which I'm forming
over a light former...

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..and are fleshing them out with
formers to create the bodies
of their birds.

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That will stay in
until it's quite dry.

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So that's the smaller one.
Just starting on the middle one.

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Now, this is the big one.

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They need to create a sense
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This is my former, just this one.

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But Fabiola is taking a
one-size-fits-all approach.

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At the moment
they look like sausages.

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My inspiration is the macaw.

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This one especially lives
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Originally from Colombia, I realised

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how beautiful Colombia
is with the mountains.

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All the green around,
all the beautiful animals.

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With dreams of her
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Fabiola will depict her
blue-and-yellow macaw

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in three different stages of flight,

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and she has ambitious plans
for its feathers.

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I'm putting the feathers one by one.
Right.

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I'm going to put one on top
of the other.

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Will you have to sort of cross-hatch
and slip each single?

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Yes. Wow. Blimey. Yes.

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It's a lot of work!

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And Fabiola's isn't the only macaw
in the house.

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I chose a macaw.

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They're colourful,
got nice structure as well.

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It also happens to be youngest
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Poppy's favourite feathered friend.

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Rather than adding feathers,

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James will form them by carving
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and meticulously cutting away
around the edges of the wings.

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I'm starting with thick clay,
and then as the time goes on,

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it gets thinner and thinner,
as I get more and more precise.

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You're going to have to be ever
so careful

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working on this as it dries out.

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Yeah, I suggest don't let
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when you are doing that bit.
I'm just saying.

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With three different-sized
birds to juggle...

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I need to do a lot of carving.
I need plenty of time.

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..managing their drying times
will be a tall order.

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I'm starting to do detail
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of this wing started to dry out
faster than any other part.

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Different thicknesses of clay
dry at varying rates.

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I'm going to put some cling-film
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so that they don't dry out too much,
too quickly.

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Get it wrong,
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becoming brittle and breaking.

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The wings are moving as I'm carving,
so every time it moves,

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it's going to get a little bit
of weakness in it.

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I'm putting them in a dry room
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more depth sculpture to it, and then
I'll put them back in again.

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Whilst most of the potters
are dreaming

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of birds from sunnier climes,

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Jon's thinking of his carbon
footprint.

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Climate change suggests
we shouldn't fly anywhere,

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so I'm not flying.
I'm going to go on a boat.

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So I'm going for puffins
as the three birds.

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Inspired by a family holiday
to Skomer Island, west Wales,

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Jon's puffin
will emerge from the sea

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with a beak full of eels, and water
still dripping from its feet.

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I love puffins.

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They fly very funny, their little
legs just dangling.

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Yes, they take ages to
take off in the water.

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They do miles along the water till
they eventually get airborne.

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Hilarious. They're the Charlie
Chaplin of the bird world.

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So if you were a bird...
I'd be a puffin.

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You'd want to be a puffin? Yeah.

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George has also opted for a bird
with great potential for comedy.

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The bird I've chosen to do has an
unfortunately silly name.

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It's a blue-footed booby.

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And for me, they epitomise
the Galapagos.

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I've never been to the Galapagos.

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My parents go on lovely holidays,
and tell me about them afterwards.

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And I'm green with envy.

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Modelled on the birds
in his father's holiday snaps,

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George's boobies will be sculpted
out of solid clay

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and hollowed before firing.

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He's depicting them
mid-feeding frenzy.

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So I want to capture that.

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Just about to hit the water,

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you know, really tight,
sleek, smooth, BSSSSH!

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One flapping about, one bulleting
in, and one flying off.

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Oh, sheesh!

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You're halfway through.

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Halfway through.

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Oh, my gosh.

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As Fabiola struggles with her
mammoth feathering session...

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I just have one bird. Great.

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..Christophe has concerns
of his own.

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This is part of the feathers.
It's a risky move

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because every tip that gets, like,
overhang can definitely break.

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To commemorate a formative
university field trip to Egypt...

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One of the birds of the Egyptian
mythology is the peregrine falcon,

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which represents courage
and strength.

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..architect Christophe's
peregrine falcon

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is diving down and soaring away

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with its prey - a mouse -
between its claws.

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But he's set himself a mighty task.

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You've got a lot to do
because they're quite big areas.

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Exactly.
And I've seen all the others,

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which look more,
like, confined, but...

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Coming to blows!
They do look fast coming over.

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How are you thinking of applying
it to the wall?

251
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So there is a big
slab underneath it.

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Kind of a structural grid
to be sure that it's not

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going to tilt over and everything.

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You want the weight to be sort
of pulling down, don't you?

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We'll leave you to it.

256
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While Christophe has big ambitions,

257
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I always think that good things
come in small packages.

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Last week's Potter Of The Week
has gone for a little bird

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that always puts a smile
on her face.

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My trio of birds is hummingbirds.

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When you're worrying
and you shouldn't worry,

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then these are my three
little birds that will hopefully

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keep me not worrying.

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Caitlin's love for the tiny
hummingbird goes back to childhood.

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She'll capture its imperceptible
wing movements in three distinct

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poses and will use under-glaze
and detailed carving

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to reproduce its iridescent breast.

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Very long, delicate beaks.

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I know, I know.

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So susceptible to breaking.

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If I give the illusion
of it being long

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and thin, but I still want it to be
fairly sturdy to prevent it.

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Right, OK.

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And hopefully I can try and capture
the kind of essence of their beak,

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but not risk their breaking
at the same time.

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OK, well, look, good luck.
Thank you very much.
I'll see you later. Thank you.

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And now I'm making sure
that I do my joints properly.

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Hopefully, this will hold it.

279
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The more appendages
the potters add...

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I'm doing the feets,

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which is very tricky to make
it realistic. It's not easy.

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..the greater the chance
of breakages during firing.

283
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My bird needs some feet...

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Not too thin, otherwise it's going
to crack, and not too thick,

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or it will look unrealistic.

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Derek, is that the ice-cream
cone getting added? It is.

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And if it stays on,
it'll be a miracle,

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But, you know,
we believe in miracles.

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00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,960
But Lois isn't taking any chances.

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I thought making them in one
piece would be beneficial.

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Hopefully, I'm not going to get
breakages where there's joins.

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As she's drawn to all things
Japanese -

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particularly its ceramic tradition -

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Lois has decided to make
a trio of Kawasemi,

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the common Japanese kingfisher,

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diving into the water for fish.

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You've never been to Japan?

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I haven't, no.

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Have you travelled much?

300
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A bit. I didn't go, like, travelling

301
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and do the whole, like... Gap year.

302
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Gap year. Me neither.

303
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I sort of got to London and thought,
"That's enough now. Thanks."

304
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I was a bit scared of
the escalators when I arrived.

305
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They do go very quickly.

306
00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:06,160
They're quite smooth birds,
but even then you would still

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have the individual feathers.

308
00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,360
I'm just using this brush to give
it a bit of a texture to it.

309
00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:11,960
The potters have been tasked with

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using low relief
to make their birds look

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as three-dimensional as possible.

312
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It's very fine carving to try
and generate a lot of depth

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with very little actual
physical depth.

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So you've got some 3D-ness
to that structure.

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The glaze will run into any texture
that I make now, and it will

316
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just make it look a lot
more realistic and interesting.

317
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While the rest carve to give
the impression of depth,

318
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George is taking a more
hands-on approach.

319
00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,440
So I'm trying to get the proportion
of a wing right.

320
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They have lovely bones
on their wings, raised bits

321
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where the bones are, and I'm
trying to keep some of that.

322
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I did do some sculpture at school.

323
00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,560
I did some really good sculptures,
but I need to speed up a bit.

324
00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,160
Potters! A little birdie told me
you have one hour left.

325
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Thanks. No?!

326
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One, two, three.

327
00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,480
For the potters who used formers...

328
00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:07,880
Oh, everybody's flipping.

329
00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,880
..they now face the unnerving task
of removing them.

330
00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,920
It's like a bird autopsy, isn't it?

331
00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:14,360
When I remove the former,

332
00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,400
it could result in
fracture... Not fractures!

333
00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,240
It's out. Whew!

334
00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,160
Whew! Whew!

335
00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:23,680
Well, OK.

336
00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,200
But Christophe is facing
his own challenge.

337
00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,160
I'm carving out the birds

338
00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,480
because there is a huge
thickness of clay.

339
00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,920
He's creating an elaborate support
system for his large flat wings.

340
00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:40,400
And I do try to leave a kind of sort
of a grid to support the wings.

341
00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:41,920
Potters!

342
00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:43,920
I don't want to be...

343
00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,480
..a bird-en.

344
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Yes, nice.

345
00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,520
But you've half an hour left.

346
00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,760
Half an hour now.

347
00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,200
Half an hour? When did that happen?

348
00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:54,920
I missed one wing.

349
00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,360
I need to make it so quick.

350
00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,000
So I need to get the thing
that's going to take the screw

351
00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,040
to hold it on the wall, to try to
get that fitted into the back.

352
00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,240
To ensure their birds hang
on the wall successfully...

353
00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,720
I never made hanging ceramics
in the past,

354
00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,440
so it's a bit nerve-wracking.

355
00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,400
..it's crucial the potters create
a snug space for a single screw.

356
00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,040
I've already got this bad boy
installed.

357
00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,280
Get it wrong, and their birds
could fall off their perch.

358
00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,800
Not particularly sophisticated,

359
00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,360
but hopefully it'll work. I hope!

360
00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,560
There's always a worry
about if it's too heavy,

361
00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,080
you know, it might not stay
on the wall.

362
00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:37,880
Oh, my God! You made me a Flake!
Don't eat it! Don't, don't, don't.

363
00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,360
Ten minutes left, potters!
Ten minutes left!
Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yes.

364
00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:43,640
I'm kind of rushing.

365
00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,040
This is the time when I become
kind of nervous.

366
00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:47,120
This is my last one.

367
00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,680
But, I mean, I haven't finished
carving in my wings.

368
00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,280
All right. They need a bit of
attention, but that's OK.

369
00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,120
I keep seeing bits
I need to tidy up.

370
00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,760
For me, a lot of mine
is going to be in the painting

371
00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,240
because it's quite a smooth bird.

372
00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,880
I've tried to detail the feathers,
scratched a little detail into here

373
00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,640
so I can pick up the colours

374
00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,280
when I paint them on to give
them a little bit of depth.

375
00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,720
Daddy Bird's looking very angry.

376
00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:10,480
Oh, look, he's serious.

377
00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,680
He's having no faffing about today.

378
00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,680
I really like their fluffy chins.

379
00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,000
Potters! Remember!

380
00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,680
A bird in the hand is worth nothing.

381
00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,560
You need to have everything
in the drying room by the end
of this session.

382
00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:31,120
Thank you. Thank you, Rebecca.

383
00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,160
I'm a tiny bit disappointed
of the pattern,

384
00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:34,960
but too late to change.

385
00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,400
Come on, Christophe.

386
00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,800
Good man, Christophe. Wonderful.
Get it in the cupboard.

387
00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:41,920
Well done.

388
00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:46,640
Flapping away in there. George.

389
00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:48,200
Oh, well done, Lois.

390
00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,400
No, in, in! In, now!

391
00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:52,760
Missed a bit, I missed a bit!

392
00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:54,040
Oops.

393
00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:55,200
I'm really worried.

394
00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,560
Just a little movement,
and then I will break him.

395
00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:58,760
Come on, Derek.

396
00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,040
Don't drop that ice cream.

397
00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,320
Like chickens going home to roost.

398
00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,320
OK. Who's left? Lois.
Yeah. Are you ready?

399
00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:10,840
It might make all the difference.

400
00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,320
Just that...

401
00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:15,360
I'm rushing it.
I am stressing out a little bit.

402
00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,920
Don't leave it too late.

403
00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:18,040
Ten seconds left, George.

404
00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,760
All right, if you take that one...

405
00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,720
Eight, seven,

406
00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,760
six, five, four,

407
00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:33,280
three, two, one.

408
00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:34,960
Well done.

409
00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,400
OK, then. And that's it.

410
00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,000
Potters, dismissed.

411
00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,920
Well done. -Well done.
Yeah, we did it.

412
00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:45,680
I quite enjoyed it.

413
00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,960
I got all the detail on that
I wanted to do,

414
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,640
all the textures I wanted to do.

415
00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,280
So, so far, so good.

416
00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,880
My main concern
would be for the large bird.

417
00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:58,200
It can either be in one piece
or into millions of pieces.

418
00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,480
It's in the hand of the gods now.

419
00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,080
As the potters wait for their flying
birds to be bisque fired,

420
00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:11,520
ready for decoration...

421
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,360
I'll stand in the middle today.
Hello!

422
00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,160
..they face a second challenge
and, as usual,

423
00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,480
they have no idea what it is.

424
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,800
Welcome to your second challenge.

425
00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,280
And this week it's going to be
a throwdown,

426
00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,120
and you will be making

427
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,560
an old-fashioned hot water bottle.

428
00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:31,600
Oh, my word.

429
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,680
To show us how it's done
is master potter Rich Miller.

430
00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,240
Well, thank you. OK.

431
00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:40,880
You've got two kilos of clay,

432
00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,160
and you're going to be throwing
in slightly different weights,

433
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,280
because you've got to make one
of the components first.

434
00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:46,720
You've got to make that neck

435
00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,000
that you're going to stick
on to the bottle.

436
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:50,600
The clay is quite firm.

437
00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,040
It's just going to cone up
and down a couple of times,

438
00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:54,960
and when you bring that clay up,

439
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,600
you're going to throw a spout
off the hump.

440
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:05,120
So that's my spout, and I'll stick
that onto the bottle in a minute.

441
00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,800
You're then going to throw the body
of your hot water bottle.

442
00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,120
You've got the needle tool
to check the depth of your base,

443
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,520
so you push the needle tool in,
slide your finger down,

444
00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,280
bring it out, and that that's left
is the depth of your base.

445
00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,720
You want to be around about 9mm.

446
00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,360
So now you want to start
collaring in the top.

447
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,080
Because this needs to be a knob,

448
00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:30,240
I'm going to seal that top up.

449
00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,960
And you want quite a generous knob.

450
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,280
Absolutely. These will have hot
water in them, you know,

451
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,120
and this is the knob
that you'll be using to hold it.

452
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:38,800
Offer up your spout.

453
00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,520
So it's going to be kind
of more of a slip and wiggle.

454
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:42,640
Is that a technical term?

455
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,480
Yeah, a bit of a slip and wiggle.

456
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,400
OK. That feels pretty firm.

457
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,240
And you need to cut the circular
piece out from the inside

458
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,200
and bring the clay outwards,

459
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,720
which is quite tricky.

460
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,480
Once you're sort of happy,
wire that off,

461
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,440
and that's your old fashioned
hot water bottle.

462
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,000
Ohh!Excellent!That is great!

463
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,760
This is going to be blind judged,
so we're going to ask you to leave.

464
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,720
Please be gone.
Make me a cup of tea.

465
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,080
Good luck. Good luck.

466
00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:13,480
You're going to need the luck, guys,

467
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,840
because the judges have given you...

468
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,440
..30 minutes... Oh! Wow!

469
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,280
..and your time starts now.

470
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,680
Remove the hessian.

471
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,320
And we're off!

472
00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:31,680
That is a tough piece of clay!

473
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,280
I'm just trying to cone up
and centre the clay a bit.

474
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,640
Just got to remember to make
my little spout first.

475
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,000
God, it is hard!

476
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,600
Nowhere near centred.

477
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,080
Hello, Siobhan. Hello.

478
00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:44,200
Look, you've done this already. Yeah.

479
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,920
Have you worked off the hump before?

480
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:47,240
Many, many years ago.

481
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:48,400
Don't do it very often.

482
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,400
Oh, God. I can feel palpitations.

483
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:51,520
Oh...

484
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:52,680
Oh...

485
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,000
Argh!

486
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,480
Oh, that's a little bit rubbish.

487
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,280
Potters, who has their knob off?

488
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,680
Yeah, I've got my knob off!

489
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,720
I've got a knob off,
but I'm doing it again.

490
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,040
You didn't like that knob?

491
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,440
I'm picky about my knobs.

492
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,080
She's very finicky.

493
00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:09,520
I don't think that was meant
to come off like that.

494
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,920
I think that's the bottleneck.

495
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,520
And the knob is on top,

496
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,640
without having to correct
your knob usage...

497
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,120
I suspect you know
far more about knobs than I do.

498
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,200
I shan't comment.

499
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,040
I feel like there's so many
parts to this,

500
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,680
I can't really get my brain
around what I've got to do next.

501
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,160
I guess I've got to make
the actual bottle now.

502
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,440
Achieving the right depth
and width of base is critical

503
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,600
if the potters are to leave
themselves enough clay

504
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,560
to achieve the height Rich
and Keith are looking for.

505
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,560
We're trying to
get up to 300mm or so,

506
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:39,600
about a foot high.

507
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:40,840
Helen, how are we doing?

508
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,240
I'm just going to check my base.

509
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,000
OK. Because it's all about the base.

510
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,760
What are you most...

511
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,120
The base is quite thick...

512
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,320
Now that's near enough to 9mm.

513
00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:52,560
I'm all right with that.

514
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,720
I need big muscles!

515
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,440
This is not going well, is it?

516
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,760
Come on, come on, Fabiola,
you can do it!

517
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,040
Nice height. That is definitely
over the 300 millilitres.

518
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,240
That is a ruler. Millimetres.

519
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:05,960
That's what I said.

520
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000
So much wobble on it.

521
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,280
I can't stop it wobbling.

522
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,320
Oh, God. It's just hard.

523
00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,040
It's just getting more and more...

524
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,920
Potters, you're halfway through.

525
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,200
Halfway through!

526
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,480
Ooh, she scares me!

527
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,400
I need to gather me knob.

528
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,240
It's going to break.

529
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,920
Oh, come on. That's it.

530
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,040
I just need to dry it.

531
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,480
It's not really going
to be enough, is it?

532
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,400
All right, we give up on that idea.

533
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,440
Small is beautiful,
small is beautiful!

534
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,040
I put too much pressure on my knob.

535
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,880
I feel like my life here
in the studio is just covering up
stupid mistakes.

536
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,480
It's got a funny shape!

537
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:49,840
Oh, no.

538
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:50,880
Oh, God.

539
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,240
I leave it like that.

540
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:54,560
Better keep going on it.

541
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,720
Potters, you've five minutes left.

542
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:57,840
Five minutes left.

543
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,040
I don't know how to do this.

544
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,520
Right. OK, let's just get it on.

545
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,560
Let's see if I can
get this bugger on.

546
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,000
I need to cut it a bit.

547
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,000
I think you're the first
one who's done that.

548
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,080
That's not going to stick on,
because I've got a top.

549
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:18,400
Oh, my God.

550
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,680
Fabiola, well done. You did it.
Yes, I did it. I did it.

551
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,520
I love you. I love you.

552
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,680
You've one minute left. Oh, no.

553
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,720
One minute left, potters!
One minute left.

554
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,640
Let's stick everything together
and get it off the wheel.

555
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,760
Oh, my God.
This is an embarrassment.

556
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,200
Eugh, that's really hard to get out!

557
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:45,960
I can't get it to fall out.

558
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000
Perfect.

559
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,680
I did it. You did it.

560
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,880
I mean, I can't even show that.

561
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,600
Ten seconds left, potters.

562
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,320
Nine, eight, seven, six,

563
00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:07,280
five, four, three, two, one!

564
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,280
Yes! Once again!

565
00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:16,440
You've got your main make.

566
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,640
You've got your main make.

567
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,640
Come on, it's OK.

568
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,320
You can do it.

569
00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:24,120
Yeah!

570
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,280
Well done, Rebecca, well done.

571
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:36,080
Keith and Rich will now judge the
potters' retro hot water bottles.

572
00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:39,680
Well, we're going to be lovely
and toasty tonight

573
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,000
with all these hot water bottles.
Yeah.

574
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,400
They are looking for nice fluid form,

575
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,120
around 30cm high,

576
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,320
with a well proportioned spout

577
00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:50,640
and a sturdy knob.

578
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,160
And they have no idea whose
belongs to whom.

579
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:56,920
OK, Rich, what do you reckon?

580
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,080
The rim on the side
is beautifully thrown.

581
00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:00,680
That's got a lovely profile.

582
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,880
Good, generous knob on the top.

583
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,400
You've got something in
your pocket, haven't you?

584
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:06,800
Just have a look.

585
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,400
I knew it.

586
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,240
Oh, wow. Oh, very good. Well done.

587
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,080
Isn't it amazing when you cut
something in half, you can see

588
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,320
exactly where you put that clay?

589
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,400
A good thickness to the base, 9-10mm

590
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,040
that follows reasonably well
through the wall.

591
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,120
So really good. Moving on.

592
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,280
I'm liking the knob.

593
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,120
Maybe could have just done with a
bit more sort of finger action

594
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,000
underneath just to define
that a bit more.

595
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,160
That's not bad at all.

596
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,120
Not bad at all.

597
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:38,760
This is the Dalek version.

598
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,680
Insulate!

599
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,160
Thanks for that, Siobhan.

600
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:45,520
I like the knob on this one.

601
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:46,760
This one has a great knob.

602
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,520
It's just a little squat and wide.

603
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,080
It's a little thin at this spot,

604
00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:53,840
but on the whole, not a bad profile.

605
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,720
This person has obviously just
struggled to get that clay over.

606
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,040
But what this does have
is a beautiful shoulder.

607
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,280
The rim looks a little like
it's not been bonded on

608
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,000
and they haven't
had time to cut the hole.

609
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,840
The whole clay has obviously come
away and it hasn't left enough

610
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,680
to kind of complete
the knob at the top,

611
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,040
but I love the shoulder profile.

612
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,200
You can kind of see why it hasn't
fulfilled its full height destiny.

613
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,040
It's got a little bit of extra
clay down at the bottom.

614
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,880
We've probably got sort of
15mm thickness there.

615
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,640
Well, this has got a nice
form on it.

616
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,520
Beautiful.
It's almost like a beehive.

617
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:24,920
It's a very definite knob.

618
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,440
It could have been slightly
larger and a bit rounder.

619
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,760
I love the profile of that shoulder.

620
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,760
That is absolutely wonderful.

621
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,040
It's beautifully even both sides.

622
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,040
That's a great effort.

623
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,960
Managed to collar that in - almost
in too far because we've got quite

624
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,360
a small knob on the top.

625
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,440
Hole's been cut through,
reasonably neat.

626
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,080
Wow. Lovely.

627
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,280
This person has made good use
of the clay.

628
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,880
Yeah. It's a good bit of height.

629
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,440
And the thickness of the base
is really lovely, isn't it?

630
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,720
It's consistent with the walls,
which is what we're looking for.

631
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,160
Last but not least...

632
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,440
This one really makes me laugh.
It's really nice.

633
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,760
As the form suggests,
just a lot of extra clay

634
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,400
at the base that hasn't been pulled
up into the wall, a bit

635
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,400
more of a cone shape, but they all
represent a really good attempt.

636
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,160
So really well done.

637
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:18,000
Keith and Rich will now rate the hot
water bottles from worst to first.

638
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,400
In 10th place, We have this one.

639
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,720
Who is this?

640
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,520
Rebecca, you've struggled to
get that clay collared in,

641
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,000
but it was well on its way.

642
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,800
It's a great effort. And we like
the definition on the spout.

643
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,800
Thought that was great.
Great spout. Great shoulder.

644
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,200
In ninth place, We have this one.

645
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,800
Fabiola! Wow.

646
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,440
OK. I make you laugh.
It was great.

647
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,160
It has such character.

648
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,200
In eighth place is Derek.

649
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,520
Seventh place is Helen.

650
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,200
In sixth, George.

651
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,360
Fifth is Lois.

652
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,240
Fourth Christoph,
and in third is Caitlin.

653
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,240
So in second place,

654
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:00,840
This one. Jon.

655
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,560
Lovely wall profile,

656
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,920
it was just that knob.

657
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,520
Little bit mean,
but beautifully made.

658
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:07,720
Yeah, well done, Jon.

659
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,720
So in first place, we have this one.

660
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,560
James.Well done.

661
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,080
Really lovely straight sides,

662
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,000
really love the shape of the knob.

663
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,160
You flattened that top off
beautifully.

664
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,240
Really good effort.

665
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:22,760
I settle my nerves now.

666
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,600
It means that when the judging comes
for the birds,

667
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,960
I don't need to worry
too much. As much.

668
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,800
It was so hard, that challenge.

669
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,520
My mum and dad,
when they're watching

670
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,000
they say to me... "Bec, pull
yourself together, get a grip."

671
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,160
I put a lot of effort

672
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,760
into getting a solid knob
on the end of my part

673
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,520
and actually having a big knob.

674
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,120
Sorry... Having... Having a... Help!

675
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,720
It's day two at The Pottery,

676
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,240
and kiln technician Rose

677
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,520
is up with the larks

678
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,080
collecting the potters'
bisque-fired birds

679
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,400
ready for decoration.

680
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:04,600
It's scary!

681
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,920
The biggest risk on
my birds is the claws -

682
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,040
tiny little elements can
be knocked off very easily.

683
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,120
If there's a big crack
or anything else going on,

684
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:15,600
it might be a wingless bird.

685
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,320
We did get asked for
different wing positions,

686
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:18,760
but I think on the floor

687
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,360
is probably not
what they were intending.

688
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,480
Potters, your trio of flying birds
have been bisque fired

689
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,440
and are now ready for decorating.

690
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:32,680
Keith, any advice?

691
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,320
We've asked you for low relief,

692
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,000
so we don't want to see all
that lovely detail

693
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,480
be covered over by glaze.

694
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,680
Your bird should be realistic
and accurate to their species,

695
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,920
your colour and glaze choice
and the application will play

696
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,640
a massive role in that.

697
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,320
OK, then, potters,
you have been given three hours

698
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,760
with which to decorate your birds.

699
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,600
Your time starts...

700
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,800
..now! Remove the hessian.

701
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,000
Ooh.

702
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,400
Are you all right? Yep.

703
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,720
I lost a foot.

704
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,840
Me Flake's still on, the
ice cream's still attached,

705
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,160
so, yeah, I'm pretty happy.

706
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,920
I don't know exactly how I can
repair that, but I will not

707
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,080
be beaten by this.

708
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,800
Bit of a bun fight, ladies.

709
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,280
I wouldn't waste a good bun
on a fight.

710
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,200
You haven't seen my buns.

711
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,760
In order to bring their trio
of birds to life,

712
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,960
the potters have a variety of
coloured under-glazes

713
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,080
to choose from...

714
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,440
Jade and apple and forest...

715
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,760
..but whether they have opted
for a bright or tropical bird...

716
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,080
My rainbow lorikeets
do need a lot of colours.

717
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,200
..or one with more subdued colour,
like Jon's puffins...

718
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,360
This is the white for the main
body and onto some blacks
and some browns next.

719
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,600
..they need to get the colours
as realistic as possible.

720
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,000
It's important to look
like seagulls.

721
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,520
I'm going to start with the white

722
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,000
because that's
the kind of base colour,

723
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,680
and then the darker colours
will start to go on top of that,

724
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,360
and the greys and then the blacks.

725
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,200
I start off just giving
a very light coat of the red.

726
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,400
Once I've done this, I'll go back,
adding bits of orange

727
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,600
so that it'll be hopefully
as realistic as possible.

728
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,440
Blue-footed boobies are quite
drab, but they do have a little bit

729
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:09,920
of subtlety to the colours.

730
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,880
So I'm going to do a King's Blue
on the inside of the wings

731
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,960
and then a very thin layer
of brown on top,

732
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,840
and then bright blue feet.

733
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,120
I'm actually really nervous.

734
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,360
I guess it's that, like, trying
to get them realistic.

735
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,560
so I'm really, like, trying
to look at the drawings.

736
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,120
Underglazes can change quite
dramatically once fired.

737
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,240
I've gone for a blue underneath,

738
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:29,960
and then a purple on top,

739
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,360
but you never really know
how it's going to come out.

740
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,040
So the more mixing
of colours they do...

741
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,600
I hope this turns out purple.

742
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,280
..the more chance there is
of birds veering off course.

743
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,880
Hello. Hello. How are things?
You worried?

744
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,480
I just want to get as many
shades of pink as possible.

745
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,480
But I'm really hoping my pinks
don't come out too red.

746
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,400
Look at all your shades of grey.

747
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:53,760
How many do you think there are?

748
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,920
There are probably 50 of them,
I reckon, don't you?

749
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,720
There we go. There you go.

750
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,560
Oh, I'm really procrastinating,
painting my whole body.

751
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,640
I'd probably paint your birds first.

752
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,000
As well as adding
the all-important colour.

753
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,200
The colours are going to make
these birds or break these birds.

754
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,840
Carefully applied underglaze
can enhance texture,

755
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,360
and should help bring depth
to their low-relief detail...

756
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,400
Under-glaze will flood into fine
marks, so it'll get lots of shadows.

757
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,640
The watery bits get caught in the
crevices and add to that 3D effect.

758
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,640
..but add too much,
and the marks could be lost.

759
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,080
I was starting losing
the definition of it.

760
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,800
So I use the sponge
to just suck it out.

761
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,560
So getting the thickness
just right is critical.

762
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,960
I enjoy decorating with underglazes,
and my favourite thing is doing them

763
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,440
quite watery, and how they pull
into the texture you've put in.

764
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,040
Yeah, that's it.
It's fantastic.

765
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,640
So that's what I'm trying to do,
but without having it too washy.

766
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,840
Potters, you're halfway through.

767
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:01,200
Halfway through.

768
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,000
I'm going to go out with some
yellow now.

769
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,880
My peregrine falcon is quite big
compared to the others,

770
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,000
so might take a bit more time
to decorate, especially

771
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:17,800
because I have a lot of feathers.

772
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,920
And Christophe isn't the only
potter with size on the mind.

773
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,280
Hummingbirds are tiny.

774
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,200
They're like this size. Yeah, yeah.

775
00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:26,440
To scale up is really quite
difficult. Yes.

776
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:31,240
But I am thinking about the beak,
because I've created
quite a solid structure.

777
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,040
That means that it won't break.
Yes, yes.

778
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,400
Yes, but I was thinking
of painting on the beak.

779
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,040
But then the sides will be all white,
so create that more illusion
of delicate...

780
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:45,520
So you're hoping that the eye will
be drawn by that very dark beak
that you paint on.

781
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,160
Yeah. Well, I will leave you to it.

782
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,560
Good luck, Caitlin.
Thank you very much.

783
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,440
Ah, jeez!

784
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,120
One hour left, potters.

785
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,440
One hour left.

786
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,600
No, no, no, no.

787
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,360
No good.

788
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,920
These feathers,
I'm going crazy painting them.

789
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,280
There's so many.

790
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,760
Once the base colours are done,
the potters can turn their attention

791
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,760
to any details unique
to their chosen species.

792
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,440
The kingfishers have little
highlights in the middle

793
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,000
of their feathers that were
on their head and down their back.

794
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,000
So they're looking a bit
more realistic now.

795
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,600
I'm trying to recreate that
iridescent look, especially

796
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,080
on the crest of the hummingbird.

797
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,240
This is just the edges of the wings.

798
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,800
So just kind of going with
the shape of the feathers.

799
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,320
But not every bird's colour
comes from its feathers.

800
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,520
A lot of what I've done is around
the face, the eyes, the beaks.

801
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:39,040
Hopefully they come to life with
the food and that bright yellow

802
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,880
beak with the red spot that makes
them really recognisable.

803
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,200
Hopefully it'll really
pop blue on my feet.

804
00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:45,960
Why are they blue-footed?

805
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,760
Their mating dance is showing
off their feet and they're like,

806
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,080
"Hey, check out my blue feet!

807
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,040
"My feet are bluer
than the chap next door,

808
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,800
"come and see me tonight."
or whatever they say.

809
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,720
I don't speak Booby, unfortunately.

810
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,960
That's not a bad
approximation, though.

811
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,240
So what I'm doing now
is the pattern of the birds.

812
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,000
I need to put black lines
on each feather,

813
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,720
which is time consuming.

814
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,480
Potters! You've half an hour left.

815
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,080
Half an hour left. Yai, yai, yai!

816
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:13,160
How are you getting on?

817
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,720
I'm feeling OK, but the way I apply
the feathers on it, I think

818
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,160
it's a bit childish.

819
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,160
I don't know what type of child
you were,

820
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,560
but I certainly wasn't making
this when I was a child.

821
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,240
I'm doing now part of the face,

822
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,600
but I keep shaking,

823
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,000
so let's hope that the judges
don't say anything

824
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,320
about the appearance
because it looks...

825
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,240
I hate this, where you're
using solid colour,

826
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,320
I don't like anything that's fiddly.
This is a very fraught moment.

827
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,840
Hopefully this will give
the illusion

828
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,440
of a thinner beak on top
of my fat beak.

829
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,040
The eyes being painted
with a little white dot to give

830
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,600
it just a little glint.

831
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,480
This face looks so funny.

832
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:57,680
Twins.

833
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,680
Think that works if
it's on a white background?

834
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:04,640
Mm... Mm...

835
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,680
I'm a bit scared
of how they will hang up.

836
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:10,040
The wings are quite heavy,
and it's a high chance

837
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,720
that they will do like this.

838
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,920
Potters, you've ten minutes left.

839
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,080
Ten minutes left.

840
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,560
I better stop fiddling and start
thinking about glazing.

841
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,880
Transparent glaze gives the potters
the option to add a glossy finish.

842
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,560
I want to glaze it so that
the colours become more vibrant.

843
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,280
I imagine it flying
out of the water,

844
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,080
so it makes sense
that they'd be shiny.

845
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,160
But not everyone's birds
are getting a full coat.

846
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,880
So I'm thinking to just apply glaze
on the beaks only.

847
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,120
I'm glazing the fish, the beak,
the water on the smaller bird.

848
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,160
So just try to give more
realism to it.

849
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,120
My plan is to glaze on the beak,
and the eye,

850
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,200
and leave everything else
not shiny - I like matte.

851
00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:50,640
OK, then, guys. The last five
minutes.

852
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,440
Oh, gosh, I thought I would
have had more time.

853
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:54,680
Glaze the old chip.

854
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:58,320
Hopefully the transparent glaze
will bring out the colours, but I do

855
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,920
want to keep it relatively
thin so that the relief

856
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,160
will still come through.

857
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,520
Christophe, are you dunking?

858
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,800
It just looked like your falcon
was like taking a little sip.

859
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,680
Hey, exactly!
Two minutes left.

860
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:13,880
Make sure your bottoms are clean.

861
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,360
You done, done? Yeah.

862
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,000
Can you give me a hand?
I need a sponge to my bottom,

863
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,560
and I haven't really looked at them.

864
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,240
How are my lovely puffins?
It's almost there.

865
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,640
How are we doing here?
I need help cleaning my bottom.

866
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,480
Anybody willing to help
clean George's bottom?

867
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,880
First in the queue, me.

868
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,320
It's like a sewing circle, isn't it?

869
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,480
Team Booby. Booby, yay!

870
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:40,240
Five, four, three, two, one.

871
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,320
That's it.

872
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,560
Well, well done.

873
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:50,440
The Beswick tributes will now
be glass-fired to 1,120 degrees...

874
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,040
This bit's like an escape room.

875
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,480
Hold the crate at the right angle...

876
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,320
..and when they're next reunited,

877
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,680
it'll be time to
hang them up for judging.

878
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:00,880
I'm really pleased with my puffins.

879
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,160
I think I was quite proud
of what I've made there.

880
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,880
The only slight risk
is whether not glazing
the whole body was the right call.

881
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,160
I've definitely taken a gamble
with the beaks.

882
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,240
I'm going to be trying not to think
of it, but it's just unnerved me
a little bit.

883
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,800
I'm probably going to have an
upside-down bird at the end.

884
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,840
It's going to be like a horror
movie, you know?

885
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,320
The birds are turning around and...

886
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:34,920
It's judgement day.

887
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:37,480
I don't want to see them.

888
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,600
And after a 24-hour glass-firing,
it's time to discover if the potters'

889
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,720
trio of birds have survived.

890
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,440
Please, pretty please, kiln gods.

891
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,840
If it comes out in one piece,
I'll be happy.

892
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,640
I'm a bit nervous about it.

893
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,000
The main part now is how
it will hang on the wall.

894
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,680
Wow.

895
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,440
They look amazing, guys.

896
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,120
These are all incredible.

897
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,440
All came out in one piece,
and they all look pink and grey.

898
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:11,520
Job's a good 'un.

899
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,920
I don't know.

900
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,440
I don't think the colours
really came out how I wanted them.

901
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,880
Maybe the judges will look at them
differently to how I look at them.

902
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,960
Their flying birds now face
the judgement of Keith and Rich.

903
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,080
Your trio of flying birds
look fantastic.

904
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,920
So let's get started.

905
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,560
Derek, would you please
bring up your trio of birds?

906
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:38,840
Watch your chip.

907
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:41,320
Oh, I forgot.

908
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,000
Got a pressie for you.

909
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:47,680
Ahh! You win.

910
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,880
I think the subtlety
that you managed to build

911
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,440
into the surface is beautiful.

912
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,000
And then there's just these little
pops of colour. It's all you need.

913
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,840
You had to get that grey right,
and you've managed it.

914
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,600
They feel true to their species.
Beautiful.

915
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,560
Now, let's see if
they go on the wall.

916
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,600
Oh, hang on.

917
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,640
On the wall, actually,

918
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,560
you get a real sense
of the perspective,

919
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,840
that kind of flying off
into the distance.

920
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,520
The moment you put
that large one on,

921
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,400
I could tell they
were going to work.

922
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:29,560
Well done, Derek.

923
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:30,600
Thank you.

924
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,120
I'd say the low relief element has
worked really well for you.

925
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,760
And you could have quite easily

926
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,240
have got that pink really wrong.

927
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:44,360
It could have gone red.

928
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,480
And I'm just amazed that you've kept
all the plumage on the head.

929
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:49,560
So am I! It's incredible.

930
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,040
I've got to hand it to you on
the level of detail,

931
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,160
the intricacy of the surface.

932
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,600
So why don't you give it a go?

933
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,200
No guts, no glory.

934
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,560
Chris.

935
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:05,720
Nobody breathe!

936
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:16,560
Oh, my goodness.

937
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,640
They cast quite a striking
silhouette.

938
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,720
You know, you really get
a sense of that movement.

939
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:21,920
They feel quite animated.

940
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,000
Well done, Helen.

941
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,320
Yeah, really well done.

942
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:25,360
Thank you.

943
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:32,400
You've got plenty of
colour in there.

944
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,520
The subtlety of the grading
of the colour.

945
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,080
I love this green, actually.

946
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,320
The black along here on the
wing-tips really adds definition.

947
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:43,280
They feel like people. There's
a real life and vibrancy to them.

948
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,040
¤64,000 question. Yes.
Do they hang on the wall?

949
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,080
Oh, dear.

950
00:42:58,600 --> 00:42:59,600
Wow.

951
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,240
They really come to life.

952
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:03,880
It does look
like you're looking back.

953
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,360
It really works.
Looks exactly like you.

954
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,960
You should be really proud of those.

955
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,080
Because they're wonderful.

956
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:14,160
They look fantastic.

957
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,800
You've made us smile.

958
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:16,840
So well done.

959
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:23,560
They're beautiful, Jon.

960
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,200
The way you've managed to
build in that low relief,

961
00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:28,800
you've really captured
that essence of puffin.

962
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,200
I really like the fact
that you haven't glazed them

963
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:34,120
and these little pops,
just putting that bit of glaze

964
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,640
so that the beak catches the light.

965
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,000
It's inspired.

966
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:41,440
It may not have worked if your build
hadn't have been so perfect.

967
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,000
You've got the proportions right
and you've managed to get every

968
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,200
single aspect of the body
absolutely anatomically correct.

969
00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:52,280
So, do they hang on the wall?

970
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:00,960
They look great, Jon.

971
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,480
You should be so proud.

972
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,080
You've really, really observed
it really well. The whole thing.

973
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:07,120
Thanks.

974
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,080
The obvious thing for me
is that this beak could

975
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,720
have been slightly thinner
and more finessed.

976
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,840
But the way you've applied
that colour to each area

977
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,760
of the bird really works.

978
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,600
And I love the way the light catches
that and enhances that.

979
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,440
I think that's
worked really beautifully.

980
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,160
Let's have a look at them
on the wall.

981
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,880
They actually look better,
much, much better in situ.

982
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,640
And, actually, you do lose some
of that beak to a degree

983
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,760
because your eye is so taken
by the black.

984
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,960
And we definitely can't fault
the ambition.

985
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,560
It's really, really tough.

986
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,880
I wanted a challenge,
and I gave myself one.

987
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:04,160
That blue along with the yellow
really pops.

988
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,760
And I love the fact you've only
glazed the beak,

989
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,440
but the issue I have is that

990
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,920
they're all roughly
the same kind of size.

991
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,040
The sheer volume of work
you've managed to put

992
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,240
into the feathers is incredible.

993
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:16,560
It's just the bodies.

994
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,320
The proportions are slightly out,

995
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,320
doesn't feel like it's as well
observed as the feathers.

996
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:22,360
Let's do it.

997
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:29,120
They look better on the wall
than they did there. They do.

998
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,080
And you really start to appreciate
how you've kind of created

999
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:33,320
those feathers individually,

1000
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,400
because you kind of see them
as a silhouette.

1001
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,160
They're vibrant. Just a bit like
your personality, really.

1002
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:49,040
They look great. They're quite
sculptural rather than low relief.

1003
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,400
That gradient of colour
and that flash of blue just really,

1004
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:53,560
really works for you.

1005
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,320
The glazing on those wings,

1006
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,120
they catch the light in such
a lovely way.

1007
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,000
And the wing positions,
they just give them such energy.

1008
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,680
They feel like they're really
in action, but they are very deep.

1009
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,640
They are much more sculptural.

1010
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,920
Do you want to see if they hang
on the wall?

1011
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,640
You can see that soaring high,

1012
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,040
spotting the prey, coming
down and coming away again.

1013
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,520
I love how well observed it is.

1014
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,680
Well done.
Well done. Thank you.

1015
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,120
They look fantastic.

1016
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,360
They're wonderful.

1017
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,640
The proportions are spot on,
but the quality of the surface,

1018
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,880
these little feathers, the mark
making is beautiful,

1019
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,200
given they're sort of so
flat to the surface.

1020
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:40,120
You've built in so much form,

1021
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,160
it's the best possible
example of low relief.

1022
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,000
It really is.
So let's see if they go on the wall.

1023
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,560
Lovely. They've got a real energy
about them.

1024
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,400
And there's a timeless quality
about them.

1025
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,280
Works really, really well.

1026
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,000
Oh, no. Come on, let's put him...
Let's do that.

1027
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,120
There you go. Yeah.

1028
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:13,880
They are rather large.

1029
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,560
And it's a testament, really,

1030
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,320
that it hasn't actually
cracked or split at all.

1031
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,160
This is quite a complex structure.

1032
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,120
I'm not sure whether you really
needed to do all that.

1033
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:27,400
And the other thing that I noticed
straight away is the muted palette

1034
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,920
colour that you've done,
but the fact that these really pop -

1035
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:32,440
that's really, really nice.

1036
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,480
It would have been nice to see
the finish on the surface.

1037
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:36,640
Just a bit more finesse.

1038
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:40,200
I love the mouse and the way
you've just curled that tail

1039
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:41,240
round onto the body.

1040
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:45,360
Let's see how they look
when you put them up on the wall.

1041
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:57,520
Don't drop it.

1042
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:58,760
Don't drop it.

1043
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:01,680
All right.

1044
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,640
If you put that shelf just behind
that wing, all of a sudden

1045
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,480
that gravity would have worked
in your favour.

1046
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,160
The colour palette works really
beautifully on the wall. It does.

1047
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:18,360
And actually that large one
works really, really well.

1048
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,120
That's really quite striking.

1049
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:21,160
Thank you.

1050
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,160
Well, James, they're brilliant.

1051
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,000
We couldn't have asked
for a better trio.

1052
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:52,280
They're fantastic.

1053
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:53,960
You've got this red just right.

1054
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,000
I'm really liking this technique
of cutting away at the edge

1055
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,440
of the bird to accentuate
those wings.

1056
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,040
I love the level of detail
you've managed to create.

1057
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,720
Some of the lines are just so fine.

1058
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,040
The quality of the glazing
is just exquisite.

1059
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,960
So let's see if they stick
on the wall.

1060
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,480
Yeah, yeah, they might...
They might not work.

1061
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:15,760
Who knows?

1062
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:18,840
OK, that's fine.

1063
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:25,520
Wonderful.

1064
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,400
Your wing-positioning choice
is sublime.

1065
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:31,120
They just have such energy,
such character.

1066
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,320
Brilliant. Brilliant. Well done.
Thank you.

1067
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:34,680
Thank you much.

1068
00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:37,120
It's been a great week and lovely
comments from the judges.

1069
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,640
It feels like there wasn't
any negatives at all.

1070
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:40,920
So, as best I could do.

1071
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:42,160
Yeah.

1072
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:46,320
Yay! The judges had some nice things
to say about my kingfishers.

1073
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,720
It's good to get some positive
comments, but it's just

1074
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,920
been an emotional roller-coaster
this week, so I'm really glad

1075
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:53,600
that it's nearly finished.

1076
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,040
Pottery can be soul destroying
when it comes down to it.

1077
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,320
It could fall short or it excels.

1078
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,120
It can really influence
your emotions.

1079
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,480
I think I gave myself too much to do

1080
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,640
in this challenge that actually

1081
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,560
I didn't really focus into details.

1082
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:13,400
I definitely would love to stay,
but if it's my time to go,

1083
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:14,440
it's my time, you know?

1084
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:15,480
So...

1085
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,760
Well, it was lovely
flying away with our potters

1086
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,280
this week here in Retro Week.

1087
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:27,320
It was really extraordinary

1088
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,240
how everybody sort of
stepped up to the challenge.

1089
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,120
I really enjoyed judging those.

1090
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,200
Yeah, we're really starting
to get to know

1091
00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:34,840
where our potters' strengths lie.

1092
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,880
It's been really informative
this week.

1093
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,440
Who's in line for
Potter Of The Week?

1094
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,200
James has had a wonderful week.

1095
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:41,920
The way he'd created feathers,

1096
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,600
the surface pattern he'd managed
to put in there,

1097
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,000
they were extraordinary.

1098
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:49,360
He was really on fire this week -
first in the second challenge

1099
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,160
and just sublime trio of birds.

1100
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,400
I was really impressed with Jon.

1101
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,120
I just... I loved
the coming together

1102
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,800
of the engineering Jon and actually

1103
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:01,720
the freedom of the artist in Jon.

1104
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,640
He's really starting to
learn to let himself go a bit.

1105
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,200
Anatomically,
they were so well observed

1106
00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:09,240
and, actually, it was a really bold

1107
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,680
and brave move not to glaze
the whole bird and it really,

1108
00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:13,760
really worked for him.

1109
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,440
But then Lois has had a great week.

1110
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,760
It was unbelievable how she managed
to use those under glazes and blend

1111
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,160
them down into colours
that were true to the species.

1112
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,360
They just felt delicate
and beautiful.

1113
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,520
And the proportions were fantastic,

1114
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,520
not only within each bird itself,

1115
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:28,680
but in the set of birds.

1116
00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:30,920
I think, of any of them,
those would be the ones

1117
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:32,560
I would have on my wall at home.

1118
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:33,920
Who's in danger?

1119
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,120
For me, Fabiola. Those blue macaws,
they had really fat bodies.

1120
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:39,880
They were kind of all the same size.

1121
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:41,800
She didn't do terribly well
in the second challenge.

1122
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:43,120
She was second from bottom.

1123
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,800
Christophe had a...up-and-down
week, shall we say.

1124
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:48,440
I really felt for Christophe.

1125
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:52,240
He'd obviously put so much work
into the grid-work on the back.

1126
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,840
What he was trying to do was trying
to make the whole structure

1127
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:58,800
stronger, but there were much, much
better ways and more efficient ways

1128
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,240
of being able to do that.
It took a lot of time.

1129
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,080
It was just lacking
in a number of ways.

1130
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:04,600
Proportions were slightly large.

1131
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,480
One of his didn't hang up straight
because the centre of gravity

1132
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,600
was off, and he'd lost a foot.

1133
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,480
So it wasn't ideal.
It wasn't a great week. Bless him.

1134
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:13,560
OK, then.

1135
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,040
Well, you go off and decide that.

1136
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,040
I'll FLY up to The Pottery

1137
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,600
and entertain them, and stop
them from getting in a FLAP.

1138
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,240
Flap? See what you did there.

1139
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,760
Thank you. I'll... I'll go now.

1140
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,760
The judges have made
their decisions.

1141
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:41,480
Let's start with the good
news first.

1142
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,040
This week's Potter Of The Week is...

1143
00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:51,240
..James.

1144
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,520
Thank you. Thank you, James.

1145
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,160
Well done, James.

1146
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,760
The potter who will be leaving
us this week is...

1147
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,000
..Christophe.

1148
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:15,880
I'm so sorry, Christophe.

1149
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:18,960
Don't worry, mate.

1150
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,240
I had a lot of fun.
A lot of stress, as well.

1151
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,360
But I made some beautiful friends

1152
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,600
that I'm just going to have forever.

1153
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:34,680
I'm going to miss you so much.
Friends for life.

1154
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,440
Yeah. Friends for life.
Definitely.

1155
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:44,840
I'm leaving happy.

1156
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,960
I would have loved to stay longer,
but at least

1157
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,680
what I experienced was great.

1158
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:51,560
We can tell you gave it everything.

1159
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,520
We've loved watching you work.

1160
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,560
It's all about passion,
and passion for clay.

1161
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,120
And you've given it to us
in bucket-loads,

1162
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,480
so...brilliant.

1163
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:04,760
It's hard to see a friend go,
but then I'm here.

1164
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,160
I'm still fighting and I'm going
to do my best to continue.

1165
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:12,120
I'm learning so much
that I'm super happy.

1166
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,240
So as Christophe leaves The Pottery,

1167
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,040
James's flying birds take third spot

1168
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,040
in the Throwdown Gallery.

1169
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,640
What I loved about James
becoming Potter Of The Week

1170
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,480
is that he's been so close
in previous weeks,

1171
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:29,240
he's won every second challenge,

1172
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,240
but he's never
been Potter Of The Week,

1173
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,320
and this week everything seemed
to come together for him.

1174
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:38,120
The level of detail and texture
that he created in that low

1175
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:39,880
relief was beautiful.

1176
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,760
The colours just popped,
but he'd used them in such

1177
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,840
a sensitive way, and once
they went onto the wall,

1178
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:47,560
they just came to life.

1179
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,640
They were incredible.

1180
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,480
It couldn't get any better
because, you never know,

1181
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:53,840
anything could happen, and it's nice
to have your work appreciated.

1182
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:55,520
It's amazing.
It's an amazing feeling, as well.

1183
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,200
You never know what it's going
to feel like, but when it happens...

1184
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:01,000
Oh, yes! Yeah.

1185
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,080
Thank you very much!

1186
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,600
Next time...
I have a lot of adrenaline.

1187
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:07,800
..our potters are getting
into their groove.

1188
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,720
You make me dance now.

1189
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,320
There's a blast from the past...

1190
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:13,560
Hi, nice to see you!

1191
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:16,480
..as an alumni potter
pops in for a master-class.

1192
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,720
OH! But things are heating up...

1193
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:19,840
Oh, no.

1194
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:23,600
..as they tackle the unpredictable
art of Raku firing.

1195
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:27,160
Too late. Oh, that's all right.

1196
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,880
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