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In Topic: super dark clay body and glazes

Posted 1 May 2013

Pres, on 01 May 2013 - 05:22 PM, said:
gypsy, on 01 May 2013 - 05:21 PM, said:
Thats a dandy fine goblet!

Thank you.

I would feel like royalty drinking out of that!
I am glad you mentioned that, I have some white clay slur bucket that I was thinking of decorating with....
In Topic: Teapots

Posted 1 May 2013

Marcia Selsor, on 30 April 2013 - 07:30 PM, said:
I always made my students do the"teapot testt" in a critique.
Now that you have the teapot, see how it works. they are tough to finesse. You are off to a good start but critique it yourself. fill it with water, hold it by the handle. Pour water into a pot.
How does if feel? Is it balanced? Does it dribble?
Now make another better one. You can ' t stop at the first one...got to get going and getting better.

good job on the first one.
Years ago, one of my Montana students saw an early teapot of mine in SF and took a photo. She posted it in the classroom above the sink. She wrote beside it,
"Dear students, this is a carbon dated teapot by Marcia Selsor..." and something like "you too can improve"
It was a fairly bad teapot.
We all laughed about it. the pot came from a classmate who traded with me back in college days.
Marcia

YES- it's a rush to make it and see it all complete. I plan to make more and improve for sure!!
In Topic: Teapots

Posted 1 May 2013

Pres, on 30 April 2013 - 01:02 PM, said:
OffCenter, on 30 April 2013 - 10:29 AM, said:
rebbylicious, on 30 April 2013 - 11:11 AM, said:
TJR, on 30 April 2013 - 08:55 AM, said:
rebbylicious, on 30 April 2013 - 09:43 AM, said:
Ok- be gentile, this is my first teapot ever. My lid does not stay on tightly, it would fall off if you try to pour without holding it down which is a major flaw. I used coyote light green shino and it is a dark cone 5-6 clay body from A.R.T in racine wisconsin.

Hey,there;
A great first effort. The trick with teapots is that you want the spout to get smaller and smaller. When you restrict the flow like this, it pours. If you have a bulb, like yours, or if the spout opens up on the end, the tea will gurgle. Check out an example of what I am saying in my gallery page. I do not know how to make attachments, as I am a bit of a Ludite.Keep at it.
TJR.

Thanks for that! When I was making my teapot I was just looking at Google images to get inspiration, I did the "bulb" type spout because I saw a lot of them and thought they looked cool, but I guess I was looking at faulty pots LOL!! It would help if I look at work from respected potters to learn from!

I don't think you're going to find any respected potters here. Lark Publishing's "500 Teapots" is a start.

Jim

Sounds like throwing down the gauntlet there.

I have always considered the teapot the ultimate test of a functional potter. Most people get the first few parts right, the lid and the handle, but the spout befuddles many. I have read 10 page discussions on the correct proportions of teapots and the places where folks fail-interesting reading. All too often you will find the teapot with the spout that come out straight not allowing the pot to be filled completely because it starts to pour while liquid is going in. Or the teapot where liquid splatters out in a spray because not enough of a straight area was set up to compress the pour. We also see pots where not enough funnel was developed so the flow dribbles out of the pot. My favorite error is a spout so steep of an angle the pot nearly has to be turned upside down to pour! All of these can be corrected by careful observation, but it is easy to overlook things. This is one reason why I always throw 5 pots at a time then 10 spouts, and 8 lids. As I am not a perfect potter, I accomplish the task by mixing and matching. If I happen to have left over pieces when all pots are done, then I use them on the next batch. I love teapots so do them often.

Thank you for that! When I told myself that i was going to do a teapot I just googled wheel thrown teapot and looked at the images to try to study them. OTher than the book 500 teapots is there something I should read or is this something i need to experience?
In Topic: Teapots

Posted 30 Apr 2013

OffCenter, on 30 April 2013 - 09:29 AM, said:
rebbylicious, on 30 April 2013 - 11:11 AM, said:
TJR, on 30 April 2013 - 08:55 AM, said:
rebbylicious, on 30 April 2013 - 09:43 AM, said:
Ok- be gentile, this is my first teapot ever. My lid does not stay on tightly, it would fall off if you try to pour without holding it down which is a major flaw. I used coyote light green shino and it is a dark cone 5-6 clay body from A.R.T in racine wisconsin.

Hey,there;
A great first effort. The trick with teapots is that you want the spout to get smaller and smaller. When you restrict the flow like this, it pours. If you have a bulb, like yours, or if the spout opens up on the end, the tea will gurgle. Check out an example of what I am saying in my gallery page. I do not know how to make attachments, as I am a bit of a Ludite.Keep at it.
TJR.

Thanks for that! When I was making my teapot I was just looking at Google images to get inspiration, I did the "bulb" type spout because I saw a lot of them and thought they looked cool, but I guess I was looking at faulty pots LOL!! It would help if I look at work from respected potters to learn from!

I don't think you're going to find any respected potters here. Lark Publishing's "500 Teapots" is a start.

Jim

you are too funny! But i will check out the book
In Topic: super dark clay body and glazes

Posted 30 Apr 2013

pay no attention to the ###### striped bowl in the background of the picture, needless to say It did not come out the way I wanted.