TILTED

After making over a dozen altered square and triangular teabowls I decided to make it a baker's dozen. This teabowl is basically squared but the defining boundries are all tilted angles with the plane of each bowl puffing out a bit to keep a full volume to the piece. It is hard to tell in these photos, but each panel begins and ends in a tilt which runs from about 8 o'clock at the bottom to 2 o'clock at the top and then the slip was applied with my hand to accentuate the effect. Once the white slip had set up, I applied a thin coat of black slip to create the circle/ square/ triangle design and since there are four sides, there are two circles opposite each other to fill out the decoration. Once bisque, the bowl was glazed in my iron yellow glaze which a friend recently likened to a honey ash glaze though no ash or Albany slip is present. I enjoyed making this group of teabowls, breaking the rhythm of "round and round" is a good thing and brings something a bit new even to the pieces that both start and stay round.