This is a very big teapot. Perfect for your next garden party. Click on the box in the right corner for full screen wonderment.
Ever since I built my big-ass wood kiln I've really cut back on the smaller pots that I used to make...bud vases, creamers, little cups and bowls...I used to make lots and lots but they don't go very far in filling the kiln and I keep running out of time to make them,
For many years my work was all meant for the table and many of the pots that I made used less than a pound of clay...a six or eight pound bowl was BIG. I'm giving myself more time to make this time around and I made all those monster pots earlier so I've taken advantage of the last week or so to revive some other ideas.
Back in the Winchcombe days Toff and I would discuss ideas for little pots that would fit the negative spaces left between the pots we usually made.
I've got a bunch of sweet little oval creamers underway as well as the flasks shown here.
With just two more weeks of making until I need to start loading I need to start putting some bigger lumps of clay on the wheel but this has been fun.
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| Flasks |
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| Honey Pots, etc. The green lines are food coloring |
6 comments:
I LOVE the tea pot!! So the food coloring will burn off? I suppose.. Love all your work...Im inspired to make tea pots now.
That's one kick ass tea pot.
Digging those flasks!
Big or small, your work is really beautiful and artistic, but I guess big kiln = big pots! Really great decorations.
Love the teapot, the size of a merchant's advertising jug, but a nice quip like some of the 18th-century English teapots! Any tips on flattening things like the flasks you made? I've not played around with flattening in a long time, but remember it being frustrating!
Fabulous work, I've seen folks serving summer cocktails in teapots - I'm sure you'd get quite a lot in one of those!
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