The first is about 8" or so in diameter and is turned from birch. I was just wanting to play around with some acrylic paints that I had and for a practice piece I'm happy. The second is a 13" bowl from black locust, it was either a root ball or a junction with a lot of branches. I can't quite remember as I've had this piece of wood for almost two years. The copper wire was salvaged from some residential wiring that I had laying around. I had marked up the surface with needle nose pliers so just to make things consistent I textured the rest of the wire with a dremel and while its not very noticeable in the pictures the wire is bent to follow the curve of the bowl.