Ok, I LOVE this bowl! I seem to be in a floral theme, but that's ok! maybe spring will come early haha. Truth be told, I had no idea where I was going with this bowl when I started. I threw a medium sized bowl on the pottery wheel then set it aside. Then, I threw a ring of clay without a bottom. I used this ring to create the "petals". After joining all the four petals, I realized I could have just thrown a bigger bowl and then cut out the parts I didn't need and then I would not have had to join all that clay (time consuming), but then again, I wouldn't have come up with this design that way either. They way I came up with this Oval Flower Bowl was a sort of a trial and error approach. I just cut of parts of the ring and held them up to the thrown bowl until I saw a pattern that I liked. At first this bowl was very geometrical. Then I added then swoops and curls along the rim and that's when I started to see "flower" and when I started to like the pot. But there was still something about it, so I squished in the sides, creating an oval and BAM! it hit me, I liked it! :) Sometimes good things just happen. I let the clay speak to me on this one, and it paid off. It's gonna sound weird, but I think this chunk of clay wanted to be an oval flower bowl :)
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9/16/2014 05:24:19 pm
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