Throwing With One Hand

Yesterday (the 28th) I sketched out a bowl that I wanted to make on the wheel. The goal was to have it be fairly lightweight, although I'm not sure I achieved that. The sketch of the bowl featured small divots in the rim to act as chopstick rests.

The title here refers to the fact that I sprained my thumb skiing on friday. It's feeling a little better now though. Yesterday when I was making the bowl I was able to use my left hand, and the fingers of my right hand. I'm getting used to how clay works as I keep making things. I feel like I need to practice making tall things because many times the base of my piece is extremely heavy and the rim is very thin. If I could somehow move the thickness of the bottom upwards...

At this point I'm remembering how my friends would always start a piece. When centering they would flatten down the clay and then push it into a cylindrical tower. They would start to create the piece once they had their clay centered and in tower form. They did this presumably so that they wouldn't run into the same trouble that I am having.

As for how the bowl turned out... It was heavy on the bottom, thin on the top, and I havn't added the chopstick notches yet. They will be easy to add at any time. I will probably also thin the bottom when I trim it.