Themed Teapots and Cups

1. Themed Teapots and Cups

2. Objectives • Further develop a ceramic form by exploring and a variety of hand building techniques to construct your teapot, including: coil, slab, additive, drape mold, slump mold, pulling a handle, and hollowing out a form to construct your spout. • Design and create a whimsical, functional form that has four main parts: body of the teapot, spout, handle, and lid • Create a teapot/teacup set that is themed and similar in form and surface design. • Create a lid with a rim so that the lid fits tightly.

3. Brainstorm/ plan • Brainstorm by developing a minimum of four sketches of teapots and matching teacups. Each sketch must follow a theme. • Choose your favorite sketch and get it approved by Mrs. Busby. • Before starting on construction, decide which hand building techniques would be the best to use in order to create the structure of your teapot. Explain the steps that you plan to go through to develop your design.

4. construct • Construct the main body of your piece. Proportions of all other pieces can be decided once you have the main body of your ceramic form pieced together. • Begin constructing and attaching the handle and the spout. • Create a lid to fit in the opening of the teapot. Create a rim on the lid. • Add surface design

5. Teacup construction • Once your teapot is finished and drying, begin construction your teacups that are a similar form and have a similar surface design or are themed to go along with the teapot. • Allow finished work to dry • Glaze it once it is fired.

6. Geometric forms

8. imitational

10. non-objective

11. Additive surface decoration

12. Nature inspired

14. Abstract

15. Animal inspired

16. Interesting surface design