The next double walled form we're going to take a look at is a bowl. I like this form the locks at Christie's really thick walled bowls that are just a lot of fun. It's almost like eating out of a river rocks. It's just so, so earthy, so rounded and soft, but thick. This up to open this up as normal. We're down about a quarter inch from the bottom.
Okay, like so. At that bottom, just like anytime with a bullet transition between your floor your walls always so important. Now so much for doughnut, I'm going to take this ring here and cut it in half instead of beginning to throw it up and shape it so that I can create two rings of clay here to form. I'm going to try to follow the line the same angle that my wall is so that I don't get a thin spot at the base. About a quarter inch from the bottom. I'm going to throw up and shape my inside wall first.
Next one, shape my outside wall. I'm going to come back and remove any water from the inside and continue my shaping. Just like with our donut. The key to this is not to bet the section up against each other or the connecting joint but overlapping. So I'm going to lay that inside wall over towards that outside wall. Working the outside wall in tight, fill them make contact.
Once you make contact, they're gonna start to work themselves together. Something like that. The technique is very similar to the donut, but we have a floor and that opens up a lot of formal possibilities. This kind of shape in this and we'll take a look at that. We'll tear it up. Can you can do a little bit of shaping some shaping because that pocket of air is going to work as your inside hand.
Do want to be gentle with it. Use too much Not air will find a weak spot in the clay because some pop off and again, you will want this connection to be seamless. A couple minutes together okay, now we have our double walled bowl shape at this bottom a little bit now one of the things that makes this form so fun is that now you can start to introduce some negative space within the form will still say staying in the realm of functional utility See, if you were to let this set up to leather hard, trim it as normal, you could come back in and start cutting out some patterns out of the side. whatever type of patterns you're looking to do, and really let it sit ups a little harder the proper stiffness, you can get really intricate with these carvings and introducing this negative space while still saying within the functional realm here.
Some interesting things that I've seen with this and that I always like to because it is such a round just kind of voluptuous form, it's so organic, is just just kind of go with that maybe introducing a little bit of a dent here for a finger mark. Sort of wave here. Maybe a little thumb catch right in there, something for your hand to set. couple holes on the side could be a spot for your chopsticks to rest right in there like so here with chopsticks in your bowls, right all in here in one for a nice rice noodle dish. Or again, just by carving all these intricate shapes in here. We're still seeing within that functional realm, it can be a lot of fun, you can do a lot of things with the shape, create a little more organic ness to it.
That are a lot of fun. So you can do a lot of things with a shape or use them as a points to building off of what the handles also you know what comes with those hollow doughnuts, he started adding some coils around it and some junk, some joints, they can take a real human reference to them. So there's a lot of a lot of fun things you can do with these forms. So that's the next shape to work with and to experiment with