Getting Started with Pinching an Upside-Down Bowl Pick up tips for pinching a large bowl upside down! Mary Drabik

Large, coil-built serving bowls sometimes have a tendency to get a little too wonky in the making process - for me anyway! It can be a challenge getting a nice swooping curve in the walls without them collapsing or without pausing a lot to let the clay stiffen up.

That's why I loved Mary Drabik's take on coil-built serving bowls. Mary builds her large serving bowls upside down, which gives her more control over the shape, and also speeds up the building process. In this excerpt from her video, The Upside-Down Bowl, Mary shows how she starts off creating a good foundation for building upside down. - Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor

**First published in 2022.