You know how tough it is some times for a potter to actually make something for themselves?
We’re always so busy making pots for shows, art fairs, kiln filler, etc… and never taking
the time to make that thing I’ve been wanting for quite some time now.
Well tonight was finally the night.
Last year I finally got around to making oval planters for my dining room windowsills.
But now I need one for outside my kitchen window. I “needed” it last summer…
and then I’ve “obsessed about it” all Winter. And with a hint of Spring the past couple days,
I knew I had to bite the bullet and take some time for myself.
So I threw the cylinder and turned it into an oval tonight. With some stamping around
the edge, it was “done” for the night. Tomorrow I will add a little “rope” texture along
the bottom and poke some drainage holes through the bottom. Hoping to get it all done
in time to put some plants in it this Spring!
I was wondering how you turn a cylinder into a oval planter. I can’t see how you would so that.
It’s actually fairly easy. I just throw a bottomless cylinder on a plastic bat. Then when it is soft leather hard, but not squishy, I wire-cut it off the bat and gently re-shape the circular cylinder into the oval shape desired. As it sits there in its new shape and stiffens up a bit, I throw a slab on my table that will become the floor of the pot. Some careful scoring & slipping to attach the parts and you’ve suddenly got an oval planter!!!