The Complete Guide to Wheel-Throwing Pottery Workshop Bundle

“The best advice I ever received didn’t feel great at the time, but it made me a great thrower. When I brought the first piece I was genuinely proud of to my first ceramics teacher, I was expecting some kind of praise… but when she looked at it, she said instead: ‘Great. Now make a hundred just like it.’ 
That’s the essence of the whole craft, really. This module gives you the precise mechanics wheel throwers actually use so that your hundred reps actually compound instead of reinforcing the same mistake a hundred times.”
- Will Donovan

This workshops series contains nearly 5 hours of instruction, from your first centered ball of clay to a finished, trimmed set plus Lifetime access for only $199.

You sit down in the studio. The wheel spins. The clay wobbles out from under your hands for the fortieth time, and it’s about this point that you start thinking maybe you’re just not built for this. 

You are. You’ve just never been taught the mechanics in a way that helps you understand what’s going wrong, and how to fix it.
This workshop series is the opposite of a two-minute video tutorial on Instagram Reels. It’s five hours at the wheel with an instructor that has over 15 years production pottery experience showing you the parts nobody films.

What’s inside

Orientation (6 episodes, 71 min)

Where every Clay Foundations student starts. Mindset, shared language, the supply list that saves you hundreds on gear you don’t need, and the six-step framework that turns scattered practice into actual progress.

• Episode 1: Orientation (5 min)

• Episode 2: The Six Steps to Ceramic Success — Will’s Story (18 min)

• Episode 3: Supplies You’ll Need and What You Don’t (13 min)

• Episode 4: Mindset & Shared Language (11 min)

• Episode 5: Workspace Flow and Safety (15 min)

• Episode 6: How to Get the Most From Clay Foundations (9 min)

Wheel Throwing & Trimming (5 episodes, 224 min)

The full wheel module, unabridged. Real time, at the wheel, including the parts that don’t go right.

• Episode 1: Supplies, Ergonomics, and Studio Setup (37 min)

• Episode 2: The Principles of Wheel Throwing- Centering, Opening, Pulling & Shaping (61 min- broken into 2 parts)

• Episode 3: Throwing a Set- How to make a Mug, Bowl and Plate Lessons (71 min)

• Episode 4: Trimming & Finishing Fundamentals (55 min)

That’s nearly five hours of instruction from a potter with 15 years at the wheel. An hour on the four core principles alone. Another 71 minutes throwing actual forms you’ll want to own- not demos, true lessons.

Plus we’ve included a full 55 minutes on trimming different forms, which is where most beginners lose the pot they just fought to make. Heavy bottoms, cut-through floors, chattering foot rings. Trimming is a skill new potters need, and it gets taught like one here.

What you get

• Lifetime access. Rewatch the centering sequence before every session for as long as you sit at a wheel.

• The full resource library. Every downloadable worksheet, checklist, and reference we’ve made, plus everything we publish from here on. Your library grows; your price doesn’t.

• Community access. Join the Clay Foundations community and get your questions answered by potters actually doing the work.

• $199 credit toward the full course. Upgrade to Clay Foundations within 30 days and your $199 comes straight off the price.

• 14-day guarantee. Same terms as the full Clay Foundations course. Watch Module 1, get to the wheel, and if it isn’t what you needed, tell us inside 14 days.

What’s not included

This series contains the wheel throwing workshops from our Clay Foundations Course Series, not the full program. 1:1 coaching, Live group calls, and the rest of the Clay Foundations curriculum are reserved for full course students.

But if the wheel is where you’re stuck, this is the right place to start, and the upgrade credit means starting here costs you nothing if you go all in later.

Who this is for

• Anyone who’s bought a wheel and is quietly intimidated by it

• Community studio members who get 90 minutes of instruction and 10 hours of guessing

• Potters who can center but can’t pull an even wall, or can throw but can’t trim

• Self-taught throwers who want to fix their form before it becomes permanent

What you need

A wheel and clay. Episode 1 covers everything else, including what not to buy just yet.

Register now for $199 and receive  lifetime access, full resource library, and $199 in credit if you upgrade to the full Clay Foundations Course within 30 days.