Carved Rim Bowl - fishbowl?

[Jim Underwood]

Need a title for this piece... critiques also welcomed.

This is an Ambrosia Maple Bowl, 4-1/8" tall x 4-1/4" diameter. The band has been rustically power-carved with a leaping fish motif, and has a branded background. This has one heavy coat of wipe on Poly. It took ten hours start to finish. I feel like I nearly nailed the shape, but not quite. Once I got it upright, it no longer looked right. Need to make another one...

[Baxter Smith]

Way beyond my talents on the carving Jim, but a burned line to delineate the branded section might give a cleaner look to that area - if thats something you want. Lots of potential with this. Good luck on the next one!

[charlie knighton]

like your fish, i think a 4w x 3h would have made your form better, not fond of your foot, seems to detract from continuous curve, maybe a bead instead of the foot, the foot reminds me of my first bowls, but the fish really do make this a nice bowl, title should reflect that

[Eric Holmquist]

Excellent job and a fitting title! Since you seem not totally satisfied with the form, the only think I can offer is that it looks a bit too tall. That may be an illusion due to the strait sides near the top. Not sure if a slightly closed form would have been better, most glass fish bowls I've seen were slightly closed form.

[John Keeton]

Jim, one doesn't realize how small those fish carvings are until seeing the dimensions of this piece! That was challenging, I bet.

I tend to agree with others on the form, and this type of carving may work better on a more horizontal form.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Personally - I like the form of the bowl but feel it would look better without the foot. Nice work on the carving and I agree with Baxter that a burned line above and below the craving would give it more of a finished look. For a name... first thing I thought of was 'Upstream'.

Looking forward to seeing where this takes you!

[Bill Wyko]

I'm with Steve, I like the form and agree with the burned lines above and below. As far as the carving goes, that's just cool. I'm just now getting into a bit of carving myself, so you're now and inspiration for me. Well done.

[Scott Lux]

I really like it. The shape, foot included, reminds me a bit of a chemists morter. How about the name Carpe Carpio (Sieze the fish)?

[Bernie Weishapl]

Jim that is a great looking piece. Fish look great.

[Roger Chandler]

Real nice work Jim! I think this one would be better without the foot as well.........and I am a guy who likes a foot on a bowl, but this one has such vertical walls, that the foot looks like it is not part of the form..........super nice bowl and fine carving.........good piece overall!

[Jim Underwood]

Thanks for all the replies, compliments and critiques.

Just to let you know, the original sketch didn't include a foot... So perhaps the next iteration of this will leave it off.

I think I'm going to actually make a full size drawing of the next one, so as to have a template that works instead of eyeballing it until it "looks right".

[Mike Cruz]

So, Jim, when you took the photos, I guess you had to put your best fish forward... :D AH! I kill myself...

[Jim Underwood]

:)Yeah.. there were a few that needed a bit more work, but I was too tired and too ready to be done... I could probably touch them up now that it's off the chuck and there's a bit more mobility...