There is a lot of room for improvement, but part of what I like about pottery is the iterative nature.
The colours look so much closer to the candy colour when the candy is in it, except for the green which makes it look like a mistake.
I used this vessel as a test for some of the glazes in a sample pack I bought. I wanted to approximate the colours so I picked the closest ones in there. Here it is empty:
I'm not a potter and have never done real pottery, but I often watch maker videos and love the whole test tile thing, which I find fascinating. There's one guy on YT, Old Forge Creations, who makes a lot of short form content about literally just test tiles. Don't know why but I find them mesmerizing.
For myself I'll never throw clay again (in the US pretty much every child of the 60s and 70s had to make a shitty ashtray for their parents at some point) but I'm 100% hooked on the videos, made by people who have clearly surpassed 70s amateur ashtray design and creation. It's incredibly complex, not nearly as simple as it looks, and my hat's off to anyone who makes anything worth keeping, especially when they're doing their own glazes.
To me this bowl is genuinely cool not just for its own sake as a usable item but as a sort of next-level test tile. Do you have any plans to make another, not as a glaze test but on its own merits? Because this one ticks a number of boxes for me personally: imperfect symmetry (a folksy charm), color block art, and interesting shapes/colors. I'd absolutely be interested in seeing another try if you care to make a second one.
Really well done, OP.
Test bowls are super common, and usually have more info that can be gleaned from them than just one type of application.
I didn't make these:
I was just being lazy lol
Layered glazes need to be tested for food safety so I try and keep them in on the outside when I use them.
I will probably make more, yes. The original plan had fewer edges and a much more organic shape. I think I was doing a bunch of hand building so I did this for practice. I keep a sketchbook full of ideas and once and a while sneak one in with all the more routine things I'm making for other people.
These are really cool. Thank you for taking the time to explain.