I enjoyed doing the photo essays on a couple tree stylings so I thought I'd do a step-by-step post on making a pot for a specific tree.
I have a strange Ficus Burt Davyi "normal" that I wanted to make a land & water pot for so I thought I'd take some series photos of it (and a couple other contemporary pot projects I'm working on.)
The interesting thing about doing this is that you never know how it will come out. The pot could be ruined at any step in drying/firing/glazing or it might not fit after firing.
We'll see....
Anyway. I started with a casually rolled out slab of no particular shape.
From there I built up a shallow "pot" area at one end using whatI guess would be considered "coiling" method although it was actually narrow strips of clay, cut in pieces and blended in.
The "water area" was then rolled up and pushed into shape as I went along.
The coiled pot construction gave me nice crags and cracks when manipulated into shape. These should look real neat after coloring and firing.
The outside edge of the water area is textured to look nice after coloring.
The pot is now dried and in bisque firing today. I forgot to measure it overall before bisqueing but I think about 20" long.
More to come.....I hope
Dale