Just in time for Halloween, I wanted to share my latest pottery creation: a functional ceramic interpretation of Sinistcha!

This project required quite a few different pottery techniques and required a lot of time, patience, and experimentation. My goal was to be as true as possible to the design while still being a functional, food-safe matcha bowl.

The bowl was wheel-thrown, with a combination of additive and subtractive hand-building techniques to create the details. The ghost was entirely hand-built and the most difficult part was the arms which I had to upsize to make less fragile. Everything was decorated with underglaze and finished with a clear glaze.

My favorite detail is the interchangeable legs. I built two inserts that fit into the foot ring of the bowl, allowing Sinistcha to either stand or float!

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