Some stuff currently in the works!

In search of a "Happy Bowl"

I have begun to consistently use the word "happy" to mean all sorts of good things. If I make a happy lunch it could mean it makes me happy, it tastes good, or that nothing was burned or smashed during the course of my making it. So now I have decided I am in search of a happy bowl. This is a bowl I eventually hope to make, but that I would also like to find some inspriation for aswell.

My grandmother is quick to criticize my pottery for being too heavy compared with what it looks like it should weigh before you actually pick it up. So part of the happiness of this bowl will be that its weight will match its looks. I also want the sides to flow upwards and the lip to be of the right thickness. I would also love for this bowl incorporate some sort of surface design glaze or otherwise that really sets is apart.

I have made a bowls before.....if you can call them that, however, they are often misshaped and look like they were drudgery to make. Probably because they were drudgery to make. So this bowl needs to have an easiness to it a subtle grace that sets is apart from the bottom heavy slightly deranged looking bowl-like items I have previously turned out.

On this search for both inspiration and in actual practice I feel certain that the words of my first ceramics professor Kreg Owens will be echoing in my head.....if you want to find one that looks right (or in my case happy) go ahead and make a hundred so you have something to choose from. Many sad bowls for one supremely happy bowl. Ok.