Here are a couple of short videos that show some of the various steps involved in making a soup bowl.
My soup bowls are pretty simple. Once I have the size and shape about right, I add a swirl shape and then reform the inside a bit so the inner curve is nice and so the swirl is a bit more subtle. I want these to be nice to eat from, and I think the subtle swirl is very nice to hold - but if it’s too deep it might interfere a bit with utensils. I try not to trim any of my smaller bowls (including these and anything smaller). With soup bowls I do sometimes come back and do a tiny bit of trimming, but only if the bowl really needs it. I leave the foot flat.
The bowls in this first video were glazed with Robins Egg Blue on the outside, and Milky Gloss on the inside and around the lip. These are fired in my electric kiln to cone 6.
This second video shows me throwing a soup bowl with cobalt blue slip. The video only shows the throwing step, and a pic of the final piece at the end. These are glazed with Milky Gloss (white) glaze, and fired in my electric kiln to cone 6.
