It's always fun to come up with a new idea. For some time now, I've decorated the rims on my broad, shallow bowls. Usually I do an understated milligrain, "egg and dart", or an even more subtle concentric carved line.
I've been wanting to make some more squared off baking dishes (and some pie plates -- yet to come) and it suddenly dawned on me some ways I could bring subtle but meaningful expression to them.
I started working on these this morning. It's been an exhilaratin' day!
I'm anxious to fire them and see what I've come up with. I should get around to that next week!
These look fantastic! I thought I might pass on this little technique that Ron Philbeck shared in a video on his blog a bunch of months ago. While the pot is still attached to the wheel, take a small board and push the bottom wall into a new shape, oval, square, triangle, whatever. How easy is that! This has totally revolutionized my process. It is so much easier than throwing a bottomless cylinder and having to attach it to a separate base in order to get things out of round. Check out his video if you don't believe how easy it is. Good luck! Have fun!
These look fantastic! I thought I might pass on this little technique that Ron Philbeck shared in a video on his blog a bunch of months ago. While the pot is still attached to the wheel, take a small board and push the bottom wall into a new shape, oval, square, triangle, whatever. How easy is that! This has totally revolutionized my process. It is so much easier than throwing a bottomless cylinder and having to attach it to a separate base in order to get things out of round. Check out his video if you don't believe how easy it is. Good luck! Have fun!
ReplyDeleteI like that. Simple, elegant technique that yields great results -- adds some mystery to the finished pot.
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