Your assignment is to make a functional teapot with a non-traditional teapot design. Your teapot needs to have a spout, handle, and lid, however, you need to push your design to be more sculptural, fun, and funky.
Students will create a hollow form
Students will understand how to prevent hollow forms from exploding in the kiln
Students will create a functional spout, lid and handle for a tea pot
Students will create a fantasy or abstract design for their teapot
How to make Gong Fu Cha, the ancient Chinese tea ceremony using aged Pu-Erh or rare Oolong teas in the Yixing teapot.
Yixing vs Jianshui Teapots & Teaware
How the Masters Make A Classic Yixing Teapot
Process of making a Yixing teapot
Clay will explode in the kiln if it is too thick!
Your sculptures will be overly heavy if they are solid!
It is a waste of clay as a material to not build hollow forms!
Creating hollow forms for your sculpture is important because clay that is too thick will likely explode in the kiln.
Tips:
**Always make sure to poke a hole in your hollow forms so trapped air can escape.
**You can stuff your hollow forms with newspaper so they will hold their shape better.
** You can paddle your form into other shapes other than an oval.
** You can add clay to your hollow forms and sculpt beyond the initial shape as along as you score and slip.
Learning objectives:
Students will be able to create a hollow form out of clay
Students will practice being careful with hollow forms when blending and forming
Directions:
Follow the visual directions and the video directions provided to make your clay whistle.
Create a hollow form with clay
Create a mouthpiece
Make the openings
Decorate
Making a teapot using the coiling method
Building the teapot body using the pinch pot method
Making the lid, spout, and handle tutorial
Slab constructed teapot