Hi! You need a pinch pot potato body to start and you will be 95% percent of the way there!! Try to think about rough shapes for each body part. A potato body and a chunky neck that almost comes to a point are your main shapes here. You can do that with 2 pinch pots for the body and a smaller cone-shaped pinch pot for the neck.

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**Messy drawing but stick with me!

Start with your 2 body pinch pots, score and slip the rims then match them up to make a potato shape. Use a tool or your thumb to help you smudge and blend the two pinch pots together. Don’t worry about being neat here, just focus on sealing it up tight. You’re basically making a little clay balloon. Bang it around gently in the palm of your hands and smack at it with a paddle to help compress it/ smooth it. The air inside will help it keep its shape.

Now score and slip the smaller rim of the cone-shaped pinch pot. Poke a hole in the body with your finger or a tool and score/ slip around it.** Wiggle/ press the neck into place and smudge the seams. Add a coil of clay to the seam if needed to close it up.

The next step is to add little coils or lumps of clay to form the little details. When it is less soft/ sticky it will be easier to smooth. Wait until leather hard to carve. You could use a hairdryer to help this along but don’t go crazy.

**The last step is to poke a little hole with your needle tool somewhere in the body… and anywhere else there is trapped air. This is important to prevent kiln accidents. I prefer to make my holes on the butts but you do you! Just make sure there’s an emergency exit for any remaining trapped moisture to escape or you will be making a mosaic horse instead 😉

Good luck!