My daughter asked for a bowl for her birthday. I was of course up to the challenge 
I had a bowl for shaving soap she liked, so I used that as a ballpark reference. I went for this sort of “sun ray” design on the bottom for no real reason.
I cut the bottom first, and used the same trick I used on my chess set where I machine in a cylindrical nub and later put that in my drill press for sanding.
My approach for the second side was to cut off the nub and sand flat, then glue it to a piece of plywood to hold in my Saunders machining vice (a fairly recent addition which I just love).
For the lid, she sent me a dragonfly image she found and when I converted to SVG, I got both an “inner” and “outer” contour due to the thick lines. I ran with this and tried something new. I first inlaid cocobolo or rosewood (I forget which) according to the very outer contour. Then I re-machined the inner contour “pockets” and we did maple for the wings and she mixed up epoxy + blue metallic pigment for the body. I think it turned out wonderfully.
I don’t have a picture with just the dark wood in, but here it is after re-machining the pockets.
Maple wings cut and inlaid:
Epoxy poured, cured, and faced clean.
Finish is epoxy on the inside (she has curly hair and wants to keep coconut oil in here) and Odie’s oil on the outside after sanding to 2000. I put magnets in the bowl and lid. I love the feel, but maybe would see about setting them just a hair deeper and inlaying something on top next time to hide them? It creates a cool feel where if you twist a little, the lid comes right off. When you put it back, you just spin it until it “whumps” right into place.
Glamour shots:
Pictures don’t due justice to the grain of this walnut, but here’s an attempt:
