March 6, 2015

Throwback Thursday: Spherical

It's Friday here in NC, but it must be Thursday somewhere, right? Here is a series of spherical pots(?) from 2010.
pottery technique round spherical closed form potter's wheel

pottery technique round spherical closed form potter's wheel

pottery technique round spherical closed form potter's wheel

pottery technique round spherical closed form potter's wheel brushwork hand painted

pottery technique round spherical closed form potter's wheel slip finger wipe

pottery technique round spherical closed form potter's wheel brush work vine botanical

wood kiln results showing spherical pots alex Matisse and teapot
A finished spheroid. This one is currently in the Union University show. 

 [and what would a blog post about spheres be without tipping my pottery bloggery millenary towards the sphere that inspired me so many years ago as a young artiste in Knoxville, TN?]

Knoxville TN sunsphere World's Fair architectural tower
the Sunsphere