Tea Pot Update.

I have not done anything!! 

I was sick monday.

I tried throwing wednesday, it kept dying.

Friday i did not try. 

Japanese Tea and Teapot

Japanese Tea Ceremony :

Also known as Way of Tea 

it involves ceremony preparation and presentation.

They use powdered green tea in Japanese it is chanoyu (茶の湯) or chadō (茶道).

Zen Buddhism was the primary influence of the ceremony.

They can be held out doors in the open air, but there are also tea rooms that are designed specifically for use for the wabi style of tea developed by Sen no Rikyū.

They prepare the tea either thick or thin, while using the best quality leaves, each guest gets a bowl of thin tea, while all the guests share and pass around a bowl of thick tea.

I am going to be making a japanese style tea pot.  

i would either make a variation of these two 

and or one like this.. it has a different type of handle

i think either would be challenging 

the first two the blue and the red one look like the body needs to be thrown in two sections. 

Week 2 : Vase In Progress

Tall Cylinder 

Beginning  Shaping

Final Thrown Piece

Week One

Goals for this week: 

-Work on throwing

-Pull taller with out shaping 

- Make a foot about the size of the lip

This week i completed: 

-I threw a UGLY pitcher with no foot :(  

- I also threw a.. big cylinder type pot 

- It has a good foot but it's a tad thin on the bottom. 

-I pulled  two handles and didn't cover them well enough. 

-I pulled two more and attached them in the same class period, 

Next class i will fish up the attaching and clean up of the handles. 

Next week i will complete: 

 - I want to try and throw two pieces and attach them.

-Pull as tall as my arm made a little less. 

-Make better foots, more clay left on the bottom for a foot. 

Performance:

A 93%

-because I'm almost finished but not yet i will finnish on monday.  

Ashley Coleson/ Ceramics 2.Period 6.

Some different types of firing like this.

Charlie and Linda Riggs 

http://www.cclay.com/criggs/

-Raku and Horse hair firings

Sectional Throwing ( Big and Teapots)

- I want to throw a big piece like this out of different sections or maybe a teapot in sections

- like that except maybe a little more the way i throw and add pieces and attach them. 

My First Work Ever!

1st Grade

Reminds me of Cat in the Hat hands!^^