This lively class will begin with students turning open formed side grain bowls with an eye towards carving feet on them and adding surface designs using various techniques such as rotary and reciprocal carving, pyrography (branding and line drawing) and color using milk and acrylic paints. Students are encouraged to bring their favorite turning tools. Sharon will use bowl gouges and scrapers. She will discuss wood selection, forms and proportions, and what sizes and shapes make it easier to flow the designs onto the insides of the bowls. There will be demonstrations in the morning and afternoon each day featuring turning, woodburning techniques, how to make your own tips and the uses for various commercial burning pens. Sharon will demonstrate the burrs she uses for rotary carving as well as how and when to use a reciprocating carver. She will show how she designs and burns in knotwork and ways to combine grids to come up with new graphics. Lastly, she will demonstrate ways to use both milk and acrylic paint, how to mix them together, then discuss when and how to use various paintbrushes, and what finish to apply over the paint. Students will have ample time to experiment with their own designs using a myriad of techniques. They will turn at least a couple of bowls on which to experiment but are encouraged to bring pre-turned open-form bowls for further experimentation in surface design.