Lizzie bowl update and a couple of decorated bowls

I posted the first bowl before but only had one picture of it. I was able to get it back to take a few pictures to post. I thought Heidi did a wonderful job of woodburning and dyeing. I just love how the lizard peeks out at you at the edge of the bowl. This bowl is 11” diameter about 5” high and turned from Hackberry.

The second bowl (pics 2 & 3) I named the Nature Coast Bowl. They call this part of Western Florida, the Nature Coast and we have manatees as well as being in horse country. This bowl was almost thrown on the burn pile. It developed a huge crack while drying after I had turned the wet rough form. I decided to try to fill it with clear resin and finished the turning. When I looked at the bowl, the pattern of the grain was such that I said I see a manatee and gave it to Heidi to see what she could do with it. This is a 10 1/2” bowl about 4 1/2” deep and is Hackberry. The crack became part of the tail of the horse.

The third, a cherry bowl was a turning reject also, but Heidi saw some possibilities in it, and made something pretty nice out of it. I think I have a good use for reject turnings that probably makes them more interesting and perhaps sell-able than my “good” bowls.

Thanks for looking

-- Dr. Ken, Florida - Durch harte arbeit werden Träume wahr.