FREE WHEELIN'

There was a time, a long, long while ago where when I was decorating bowls and plates that I would just throw all caution to the wind, free wheelin' and making up designs with the pot in hand, as you can imagine this was accompanied by a fair amount of crash and burn pottery. Slowly but surely I worked out designs on paper, with pencil mind you and then using ink on the pot surface. This particular carved porcelain "grasses" bowl shows the ink quite well along with a design that I just couldn't make work, especially after having carved over a dozen other pieces that day. The inked decoration was to be  based on an oak leaf design that I have used before though in a set pattern and layout, this attempt was entirely unscripted, not well planned out and 110% free hand. In the end I just couldn't make it work and fell back on the "grasses" decoration which just works so well around round bowls and plates. Maybe for the next go around, I'll spend a few minutes with paper & pencil and see how to make the decoration work before I just decide to just jump in head first.

Just a song I like by Mary Fahl, BEN AINDI HABIBI;