Drawing my work (late Feb-)

ink on paper, 4th march.

ink on paper, 25th february. Drawing the teabowls I made 9th-11th Feb (with the finished carved foot). Trying to capture the relationship between the relatively diminutive foot flowing up into the rather ‘full’ shape of the bowl, working very quickly with no prior sketching.

ink on paper, 25th february. Drawing the narrower, more strictly conical bowls made a few days later - again, working very quickly & just by eye. I was trying to capture the more restrained quality of these bowls - the clean sweep of the form. I was drawing from three different forms, all of whose feet were finished slightly differently - the righthand sketch has a straighter profile whilst the one on the left narrows, flares out, and then is trimmed at the base. This more shaped foot is often seen on Ido teabowls and I really like how it gives the otherwise-restrained form a subtle richness. The bowl which is pictured inverted is the same form, as its foot-ring was my favourite - while the others were turned using the Giffin Grip, this one was carved by hand. It adds an element of roughness which contrasts well with the otherwise-refined form, each quality enhancing the other.