Bowl #2 – Originally a plain bowl with a bent-out, flanged rim.
Now with a little accent border of stamped texture!

Bowl #3 – Originally a flared out rim & fluted edges.
Now with a border of stamping just below the fluted fun.

Bowl #4 – Originally a large plain flange on a small bowl.
Which is really just a great “canvas” to do some stamping, right?

Bowl #5 – This one was originally just a bowl with a split rim.
Now it’s stamped and pinched back together in all the right places!

Bowl #6 – In class we left this one with the split rim and pinched together in 8 places.
I added a couple stamps, some little add-ons and a bit of curving.

Tonight I stamped the larger berry bowls that I threw last night. Sure, they were still a little damp… which just makes it a little tougher & a little squishier. But sometimes that makes for deeper & more dynamic impressions!

BOWL A – plain and full of potential…

The chosen stamp…

The bowl after stamping & fluting… no longer plain…

Potential fulfilled.

BOWL B – Another plain bowl ready to go…

BOWL C – Ready for action.

BOWL D – not just your average bowl… soon ‘nuf.

BOWL E – waiting for the party…

PLATE – of course the drip plates that go with the berry bowls need to be stamped too!

So now they’re all wrapped up and drying a bit more under plastic. I’m hoping to get back to them tomorrow for a little trimming!

In tonight’s wheelthrowing class, we covered the basics again, cylinders, taller cylinders, soap dispensers – even a quick flower pot. Busy class. Then we ended with one of my favorite topics… stamp-making!

After teaching my class, it was back into the studio to finish stamping the rest of the bowls. Luckily, they had stiffened up just a little bit more so they weren’t sticky any more… and a lot easier to stamp! So it was a late night of stamping. But I was glad to get them done as they were in just the right state for some good, clean stamping… which for me, is on the slightly wetter end of the leatherhard spectrum. I’ve gotten to where I like a little squish in my stamp. Kinda like a little spring in my step…

Tonight I tried to stamp a few of the bowls I threw last night. They were still a bit too wet for my liking. A little too sticky. But with a little patience & perseverance, I did get a couple of them stamped & decorated before class started.

After a little trimming, stamping & slipping, the simple enclosed “cone” forms I threw Wednesday night were converted into wall pocket vases last night in the studio!

After bowling, pizza & ice cream, I went back to the studio for an evening of stamping. The pieces that I threw yesterday were a soft-leatherhard, some more so than others. So I started with the drier ones to allow the wetter ones to stiffen up while I was stamping. My plan worked. All stamped and wrapped up again for the night.

Still making. Still stamping. Still trimming. Still drying.
Still trying to bump up my inventory for this summer’s art fair season! Coming soon!!!

Well… when you make small herb flower pots, you need to make water trays.
Don’t want water leaking all over your windowsills. Since the pots have already
been thrown, stamped, trimmed & drying… I had to make the trays.

I threw these last night… and today they needed a little somethin’-somethin’…
so I did a little stamping, fluting and some other detailing. Followed by a bit of
trimming and now they’re all done & drying!

And now that they’re all done…. I sure hope my calipers were still set
at the right size?! They do look a little small… we’ll see…