Carving A Wheel Thrown Pierced Stoneware Bowl- A Geometric Approach

In this video, I'm going to be carving this bowl. This is approximately an eight pound stoneware bowl. I have thrown it with a rolled rim. If you are not familiar with what a rolled rim looks like, I believe I have another video that I'll try to link in the video description. Rolled rim is just when you take it and flip it over and it has a little hollow space. I'm going to be carving and similar to what I've done with some others. I am using just simple tools. I'm laying it all out by hand. I'm going to be using an X-Acto knife for cutting, a needle tool for laying it out, a little miniature ribbon tool for carving it, and then also a paintbrush for cleanup. I start out by always laying out my design. I like to work with geometric design, so I often will use some hash points and mark them directly across from each other to subdivide the areas. You can see I'm trying to lay them out lightly, so if I do make a mistake, I can go back and rib over it. Here I'm using just a, I think it's a paper towel or gauge, basically a ruler. I was trying to make sure that I was marking my marks in equal distance from the foot of the bowl. I am not worried about, you know, true, true precision, but I'm trying to get it as close as I can because I want this to have a handmade appearance, not something that's absolutely perfect and laser cut on a machine. So and lastly, I don't show all the complete cleanup, but I do round the edges and I will be cleaning it all up with a paintbrush and allowing it to dry very, very, very slowly. After a slow bisque firing, I then dipped it in a black glaze and then did a slow glaze firing, and this is the final result. I'm very pleased with it. You can see that the foot ring, I did wax the foot ring to keep that clean.