Here is to hoping everyone has a wonderful (an safe) Fourth of July!
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
30 MINUTES OR LESS ÷ 2
Realizing that it is
unlikely I will work tomorrow and I had a few minutes to play with, I decided
to to make a teabowl from start to finish in 15 minutes or less. Starting with
a little over 1.5lbs of clay, I threw a standard nondescript bowl and then
decided how to procide. I will admit this was a bit of a cop-out as there is
nothing that pushes any parameters at all in this hexagonal piece but it came
to mind and I went with it. I dried the clay just a bit and proceeded to beat
on it with my large wooden spoon until it had its overall shape and then
defined the lines with a metal rib and a rasp. I then dried it a bit more and
tooled the foot and finalized all the angles before covering it in thick white
slip and worked it impasto style in opposing directions around the teabowl. So
in just under 15 minutes, this is what I ended up with, a rather large bowl
covered in thick, impasto slip on to its next stage, drying which I can assure
you takes a wee bit longer than 15 minutes but the heavy lifting is now
complete.
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