Karen Sullivan on tue 26 mar 02
This is not an effort on my part to sound expert
or egotistical...please....
Just a point of view....about how I found the key to the doors
of gesture....it's a state of mind....
I am lost and frustrated with efforts at precision..
Just to put things in perspective.
I make 10 minute teapots...
I do all the throwing on the hump...
In order of form
lid
spout
handle...which is a short cylinder...an inch high
that I slice open...slice off the hump and stretch out
smooth..pull to soften the edge...a handle
body of the teapot....
I assemble everything immediately and it's done....
cut off the wheel and set on a board....
small efforts at cleaning up the forms at
soft leather hard.
The point of view is
touch the clay immediately...
do not fear the movement and gesture that results
it provides the keys to another journey of form
that is lively.
So......I could do 6 teapots in an hour...
In an 8 hour day...that's 48 teapots in a day....
but I drink coffee...not tea...
bamboo karen
Elca Branman on tue 26 mar 02
Okay, the steeplechase is starting..on the left is Stephanie, 10 minute
teapots off the hump, on the right , the flying Norseman, mel and they
are speeding down the stretch when..whoa..a dark horse , an
unknown,crowding on the inside , gaining ,
gaining and the winner is.....
ROBERT DE NIRO..what a contest!!
Elca Branman.. in Sarasota,Florida,USA
elcab1@juno.com
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Tommy Humphries on tue 26 mar 02
Hey Karen,
I have never thrown from the hump, but I like the way you describe your
method...perhaps one day I will try this out.
By the way Mel, I haven't made any teapots in nearly 5 years, but the last
time I did it was an order for 75 assorted sizes...I did have them made in 3
days, but I only made 10 the first day since I had to learn the right steps.
Made some with innie lids...some with outie's, some had flat lids (our
standard canister lids). Pulled some handles, made lugs for cane handles on
some. Hardest part was making the spout look right...made twice as many as
I needed, picked and choosed which one looked best on which pot. Made a
few one piece ones from bottles, that I really liked, and need to develop
more.
With this thread, and Cindy Strnad's article in Clay Times, I am starting to
get the T-Pot fever again...
Tommy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Sullivan"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:04 PM
Subject: fast teapots....
> This is not an effort on my part to sound expert
> or egotistical...please....
> Just a point of view....about how I found the key to the doors
> of gesture....it's a state of mind....
> I am lost and frustrated with efforts at precision..
> Just to put things in perspective.
>
> I make 10 minute teapots...
> I do all the throwing on the hump...
> In order of form
> lid
> spout
> handle...which is a short cylinder...an inch high
> that I slice open...slice off the hump and stretch out
> smooth..pull to soften the edge...a handle
>
> body of the teapot....
>
> I assemble everything immediately and it's done....
> cut off the wheel and set on a board....
> small efforts at cleaning up the forms at
> soft leather hard.
>
> The point of view is
> touch the clay immediately...
> do not fear the movement and gesture that results
> it provides the keys to another journey of form
> that is lively.
>
> So......I could do 6 teapots in an hour...
> In an 8 hour day...that's 48 teapots in a day....
> but I drink coffee...not tea...
>
> bamboo karen
>
>
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