Can anybody tell me some simple design ideas for the outside of a coiled pot?

Answer 1

I am a ceramic artist. Some ideas. You can vary your style of coil. Try making one row of the coiled pot out of coiled circles then top with more straight coils. You can also do what is called sprigging. make shapes that are pinched or slab, like make leaves, stars, hearts, flowers, ect. Attach these to the outside of your pot on the coils. Your pot must still be green or wet. score the back of the item you are attaching with a needle tool, score the place you are attaching it on your pot, apply a little slip then attach firmly. Try to make sure there is no air in between or pockets for an air bubble. you can smooth the edges a bit. Be creative and experiement with this technique. If your pot has already been bisqued then you are more limited to using glaze for variety. Try different textures of glaze, tray a salt firing. You can Raku fire but only if you have the right clay body. It must be a raku clay or high fire body of clay that is capable of handling extreme fluctuations in temperature.

Answer 2

Let your pot set up to leather hard and do some carving. You could use goemetric or organic lines.

Even simpler carving - use a stencil

you could carve out a relief if your pot is thick enough.

you could design it with glaze after the first firing. Often a few angled and overlapping dips will look great.

there is so much more.

go to google and put in the words decorated bowl or pot and have google just search for images. There will be tons. Perhaps one of those images could give you inspiration.

Answer 3

you could just join the inside of the pot and leave the natural coils on the outside or piecering designs .
other suggestions if you don't want to do any thing radical to the body would be on body painting of simple repeating motifs with oxides underglaze(assuming that you are familar with ceramic terms)you could do a bas relief on the outside or a bit of carving .effects with galzes- flow,crystal, tenmmoku,crackle, on glaze painting, mixed glazes
or any combination of the above- the possibilities are endless- knock yourself out- experiment.
happy potting.
God bless,
gabe

Answer 4

try pushing in a design every other coil like a star or something that you can impress the same pattern over and over. you can even pinch the coil with your fingers to make an interesting effect

Answer 5

Check out Greek pottery, it's beautiful, although complicated lol.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_pottery