Off the Porch and Growling

More sunflowers coming out boss! For whatever reason, I am in the mood for flowers - maybe it's because it is getting close to Summer, maybe it's - well for whatever reason I kept rolling with the theme.

I did two differing styles. The first is a simple cylinder approximately 4 lbs of miller 65, I say approximately because I cut roughly 2 inches off the pot due to warp. My fault I wasn't paying attention and got a twist in the pot which buggered it up a bit. No harm, no foul.

As with the previous weeks pot, I finished the base with the ever popular 15.00 tool (in todays market its a 17.00 tool) Anyway, I folded one edge and then modeled the flower directly on the pot versus creating the flower and then adding it to the pot.

For the second style of pot, I used the same amount of clay and started
similarly, however; I went for a more bucket shape e.g. wider at the top versus the bottom. Like the other tool it is finished at the base. With this one I folded two sides, and on one side I modeled the flower and the other I created the flower odd the pot and then added it for the juxtaposition.

I was trying to see which way gives a more organic look. I have to say I think modeling on the pot wins hands down.