Two moods.........

Same pot, different lighting used to share a piece that I created on the potter's wheel a few years back.

I really like to use red clay on the potters wheel.  That particular clay has a fine grit in it.  It is fired clay that has been ground up and put into the wet clay.  While working on the wheel with this  kind of clay, you find that your hands are being sanded and smoothed out. The rubbing of the clay on your hands works like sandpaper on your skin..  I see this pot also has white clay mixed into it as is evidenced in the grooves that I had made in the side of it.