I Like Small Bowls · Craftwhack

Bowls concur undercover powers. They are the perfect shape. They are functional, unproblematic, still they tin can hold and then much meaning for us.

When I was slinging dirt around in college, I felt the need to prove something to myself past focusing on making giant clay sculptures. They were funny. And heavy. On the side I messed around with making small bowls, but I never let myself really go into functional pieces considering I had some lofty notion that I was an artist and not a craftsperson. I was 20, eh?

Although my huge, ungainly sculptures have all long been turned into landfill, I actually kept a few of the bowls I made, and they make me happy to apply daily.

Today if I had a kiln and a wheel, I would probably lock myself away and listen to loud, crawly music and make thousands of bowls. In fact, for as much fun as I had making my air dry dirt bowl project, I felt a pang of sadness that I couldn't fire them and go that lilliputian thrill when you lot first open up the kiln and see how all the glazes turned out.

I learned about Japanese tea bowls when I was at RISD, and immediately fell in love. The whole artful backside these bowls is brilliant- later on each bowl is thrown, the craftsperson adds in a tiny flaw to correspond the residual of perfection and imperfection- wabi-sabi.

Hagi ware tea bowl in the shape of a Korean tea bowl

18th-19th century – source

This is a fantastic resource for checking out different tea bowl shapes equally well as photos of examples of bowls in the respective shapes.

Korakuen ware, Edo period (1615 – 1868),  source

I also keep my eyeballs peeled for beautiful small-scale bowls online and out in the world, and I volition share some with you lot here, merely only if you promise to beloved and admire them as much as I exercise. (I'grand trying to up my creep factor hither, how's it working?)

This celadon light-green and stake turquoise blue are one of my favorite color combinations. Plus, I'm trying to utilise pretty bowls and containers to hold all my crap at present instead of plastic bins.

What practise yous recollect?

Joanne Gonzales has a passion for getting creative. Whether she is making personalized DIY gifts or taking part in larger arts and crafts projects, she puts her all into making new and beautiful things.

She lives with a group of close friends and believes in the natural way of life. Joanne has built an outdoor craft gallery that overlooks the countryside in her hometown, which is where all of her creations come up to life.

Art started off as a hobby, but over time Joanne has mastered her skills and sold some of her favorite pieces. She works full fourth dimension as a florist and has done for many years. It helps go on her creative juices flowing and she hopes to one day open her ain florist shop with a twist.

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