Banjo Bowl
Claire M.
Ceramic
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This bowl was made by draping a wet slab over a plaster bowl mold. After removing it from the mold and adding a foot, I painted the outside with barnyard slip. I used the sgraffito technique to carve out the shape of a bluegrass banjo and did cross-hatching everywhere else. I used two cone 10 glazes for the inside and sprayed the outside with a light layer of clear. The textured effect on the inside was not entirely intentional, but I like it! I think it adds contrast to the piece; the roughness of the inside versus the delicate work of the shell. Banjos are pretty cool and awesome in my opinion! my sibling plays bluegrass banjo and I play fiddle :]. we’re a regular bluegrass family.
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I will never say it right—but my dearest hope and most arduous belief is that within all my silly words and pictures, all the trying and failing, there lies visible some spark of the truth. The completeness of my message is beyond these walls and words, but dwells within them.
