My bowls

Some help with a title for these would be greatly appreciated. Was thinking of calling them inside out, inturbeth or something else..... help ?.... please!!!

Squished, squashed and stretched macquettes

A bit of a struggle

After deciding to copy some of my macquettes in clay I really started to struggle with this project.   I was throwing pots and cutting them up I was really disappointed with the results.   Apart from feeling that it was such a waste of time to cut up perfectly good pots, even if they were only small ones, the effect of the layering was  just dreadful.  It didn't matter how I arranged the pieces this just wasn't going to work for me.  The work that resulted from this was static and uninteresting and I hated what I was trying to do.  I desided it was time to go back to my sketch book and try to figure out a way to make me interested in this project again.  I went back and looked at the macquettes again and with the help of my wonderful daughter Nia I took more photos of them while she squeezed, squashes and stretched them.   I was delighted with the results.  The macquettes had taken on a lovely organic feel to them.  I did some drawings fro the photos and became interested in using the negative spaces as well as the positive.   This led me to making bowls.  They started off really small  and gradually got a little larger although they are still not the scale I would like them to be but alas my technical skills don't allow yet for the size I would like them to be but with a lot of practice and perseverance I'm sure 'll get there eventually.  After making my bowls I decided to use the lines from my new drawings as a surface treatment on the bowls.   After trying pushing, scraping and cutting onto the bowls at different stages of hardness I discovered that after throwing the pots I could only leave them for about an hour when it was time to work in to them to get the effect I wanted.  Some of the pots are pushed and scraped from the inside and some from the outside.  I liked the effect I got on the inside of the bowls when the clay was scraped and pushed.   It created a completely different line from what was on the exterior of the bowl and this is what led me to reversing the technique.  I decided to use a simple white glaze as I wanted the pots to have a contemporary feel to them and to enhance the areas of light and shadow on the pots.  I also discovered that there is no such thing as a simple white glaze.  I came up with plenty of dirty greys and beiges and even some blues.  Eventually I came up with a nice bright white by taking the oxide out of a recipe I had used before and you can't imagine the relief I felt when it came out of the kiln and it really was white. I was delighted. I havemost of my bowls glazed now  but unfortunately ai had some air bubbles and there are areas without glaze or where the glaze was too thin.   Good thing we learn from our mistakes.   I have a pot to get out sometime tomorrow and hopefully it willl be a perfect one. Fingers crossed!!!