Birds on the Brain

If you ever want to push yourself and test your mettle on a new design or technique, try making it over and over again. Alice Stroppel did this recently with these awesome little bird bowls. 26 times she recreated the basic design but with different canes. And, oddly enough, she thinks this may lead to her to even more bird bowls. This is what she said on her blog about them:

“I’ve been working on these bird  bowls for an exchange I’ll be taking part in. In the beginning I thought I must have lost my mind to think I would ever finish 26 bird bowls. especially since several broke apart in the oven until I figured out you can’t take the bowl out and add more things and then bake again … I really have learned so much about making bird bowls so there might be more on my table soon, or maybe even a workshop at Studio 215.” 

I’m very curious about why she couldn’t add pieces after the first cure. Maybe it was about how they were propped up or formed to start with. If she has a workshop on these then some of us might be able to find out! Speaking of which, she mentions her newest project there at the end, Studio 215.  This is an actual brick-and-mortar gallery workshop space Alice has over in Florida. I had the pleasure of hearing about it, and some other interesting ideas she has in the works, while we were at Sandy Camp together last week. Sign up to on her studio’s website to get any and all exciting news about happenings there.

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