I tried out a cephalopot bowl design.
It was thrown from one pound, so will end up more dessert bowl size than cereal/soup size. Or maybe it’ll be a good rice bowl. Whatever.
I like the stubby chubbiness of the tentacles, and the shape of the bowl itself is a nice, elegant, easy-to-scale-up shape, so sets can happen. Overall, I’m quite pleased with it.
I realized after it was done that if I’d made the tentacles bigger, or if they curled differently, they could hold your fork or chopsticks for you. Will have to remember this in future incarnations…
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My name is Maaike Charron, and I'm a potter in St. John's, Newfoundland. I started fiddling around with pottery in summer 2006, when I was told volunteering in the local clay studio would get me free studio time. I mostly taught myself, spending a lot of time poring over books, magazines and websites, and occasionally pestering the more advanced (but very helpful) potters around me with questions. After about two years, I decided I'd gotten good enough to go into business for myself. This blog, started after my first big craft fair, was created to document the process of becoming a wondrously succesful craftsperson. (Or it will document How Not To Do It. We'll see.)
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Loving your cephalopot designs. Great idea, great shapes, great portmanteau!
Thanks!
So far, they’re pretty fun to make, too. :-)
Are you the Lori I think you are?
oooh, tentacles! Nice.
Oh yes, I am the Lori you think I am!