Doin' the Dart

Here's another thing from Shawn Spangler's Throw & Alter class: Darting, which is also a sewing technique in which you cut like a triangle out of your fabric and then sew the fabric back up. With pots, you remove a V-shape or it could also be an oval leaf-shape from the wall of your clay form and then push the walls back to close up the hole.


I tried it with simple, straight-up-and-down cylinders and hated it! These look so stupid.


















But then I tried it with some potbellied cups I made. One V-dart on the side turns the potbelly into a duckbutt. Love it.