Teapots & Teacups Ceramics I-Final. Functional Teapot Properly balanced Comfortable to use Easy to clean Pours without gurgling or dripping

Teapots & Teacups

Ceramics I-Final

Functional Teapot

Properly balanced

Comfortable to use

Easy to clean

Pours without gurgling or dripping

Lid stays attached when poured

Non-functional Teapot Doesn’t function…

created for aesthetic purposes. Sculptural

Witty or humorous Elegant or sculptural Interesting to touch Serve as a jumping off point for forms

representing human figures, animals, machines Reference historical teapots

Teapot & Teacups

Show a relationship

Surface treatment

Form

Color

Sketch & determine building methods

Glazed teapot & teacups due completed the day of the Final

Final will be presentation of Completed works

Teapot should be no larger than 10” l x w x h

Building Methods-Pinch, slab, coil, thrown, extruded, modeled

Body-slab, coil, thrown

Handle- slab, coil, pulled

Spout- hand-built, thrown, extruded

Cups- pinch, slab, thrown, coil

What next…

Detailed sketch of teapot Detailed sketch of teacups

Monday-throwing demo

Last Wet Day-December 21st

Glaze when return from Winter BreakFinal-TeaParty Critique