Thank you for all this helpful comment which revolves around preference for the plain mini-bowls because the edges are more sharp. The gilded bowls were initially (photo 2) coloured by Jo Sonja gold paint and in the last photo were gilded with fake gold leaf. The gilding was an attempt to sharpen up the edges but due to my very poor 1st go at gold leaf made it worse!
However, that particular spiral with enlarging mini-bowls centrifugally simply looks ugly to me against a circular background. A subsequent piece with this pattern on a rectangular background looks much better --Aha a later post!
Tony & Di spotted the heresy of using paint
...not a favourite medium to me. I tried using stain...........
but could not get the crisp edge due to stain creep along the grain This was very much a test piece to see if my offset system would work and taught me 2 important points: 1. Green is a horrible background on sycamore, and 2. Mathematical spiral forms cannot be guessed freehand. I settled for the Dark blue / plain sycamore combination for further pieces because it looks good on ceramics (Wedgwood for example). The Fibonacci spiral is an expansion based on the 'golden ratio' of
phi and probably does not fit particularly well on a circular background., but I was pleased with bowl in the 1st photo.
Ramblings................sorry. but thank you for the comments
Regards
Nick
