Friday 9 August 2013

Playing with some teapot ideas!

Hello again ! here's some pics of some teapot ideas I've been thinking about, these were taken at the same time as the last post but have been cleaning and had no time or just been lazy anyway ......................
what you think???


 was playing with the ideas of having a corrugated base on these, so the on the furthest left was thrown normally then when it had firmed up it was dropped on a plaster mold to give the shape but in doing so has distorted the shape but is still interesting.

the middle and right were thrown as a bowl cut with a cheese cutter then separate slabs were press molded and attached which took longer than expected then spouts were thrown for the left one and a pulled handle. middle had an extruded spout and pulled handle. the right one was using an extruded spout and handle

All can be developed further especially.



detail from far left teapot base especially like the movement in the base



. this is the questionable functional teapot which as two spouts and two lids but only one of each actually works. Can you guess which ones?



looking at it I don't really like the base join, as I used the larger corrugated mold to pressmold where as the others I used the smaller one which worked better.
really this is the first playful experiment with this idea so still lots of possibilities