Ceramic stuff

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Meant to put this up ages ago when the new other mods category was fresh.
A few pieces from the last few years, starting with those on my PB account already...


"Foundation Course"


One of my faves. Typical overadventurousness of me. It is a 'Big yellow Tea pot' inspired,,, hmm Tea pot! ;D It was going to have 'a room' inside it and an open stair door, windows and everything but teacher was annoyed at my plans and there wasn't enough class time. Its a subtle nod to the original though, holds over 2 pints and all pressed/coiled/sculpted. so took a few sessions just to build it!

[MR TIKI]

that teapot is cool,great finish too.its a shame your tutor curbed your idea,you could have made the 'tea cup' car too. ;D

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I used to do "pottery" when my wife used to work night shifts...... the teacher was HOT !!

So I did a load of stuff there, but always was more interested in her.

Made a very pretty Japanese inspired tea set which a mate in New Zealand still has to this day, he has a nice wife......

[captainwow]

lol!!so,for you,pottery is all about the women,not the wonderful,beautiful,skillful shapes...oh bush to it,you're right


that tea pot is mega btw!

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mrtiki said:

that teapot is cool,great finish too.its a shame your tutor curbed your idea,you could have made the 'tea cup' car too. ;D

Thanks,

Funny you say that, the next assignments was condiments pots and he wasnt happy when I wanted to do characters and/or vehicles. It had to come from a bunch of different ideas

Instead I made a very unuseful butter dish based on a cyriak animation from a O/T thread posted by 'deathgaytothemax'!

I'll find a pic later.

Took a year out this year partially cos of 'the vibe' hope to go back again.

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Yep, I like the large teapot too.

Oh, and is life not for living and women ??


Sorry, I cannot help it, just love them all.
My mates wife was one of my students, and because of that icould and would never hit on her, then I found out later he had met her and married her. I have had a longstanding thing with her bonkers older sister, which kinda makes up for it, and I did teach the youngest sister a few tricks too
6 girls, and one brother in the family, and he does not like girls.

captainwow said:

lol!!so,for you,pottery is all about the women,not the wonderful,beautiful,skillful shapes...oh bush to it,you're right


that tea pot is mega btw!

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Wow Well its a good way to meet women, by the end the only blokes we're me and the tutor.

So the animation (and other stuff) inspired butter dish piece...

Looked alright at this stage, Took ages to get the ribbed tube shape which was inspired by a vintage/custom supercharger pipe thingy, The chimneys off the vid and the face off an Orange advert IIRC.


Arrrgh! Disaster ;D

Fixed on with more glaze

Then it came out, Glaze all bubbled and top that was carefully crafted locked on, and despite wiping glaze off it was my fault it was stuck on! Doh! ;D

[MR TIKI]

Thats really smart,the glazing process can really make or break a piece.I would'nt blaim yourself though,its your tutor's job to guide you and fire your work.your work would have been fired before you glazed it.work does'nt usaully shrink anymore once fired so the lid could have been fired sperately or stood on ceramic feet like the ones used to stop it sticking to kiln furniture.glaze bubbles for 2 or 3 reasons as a rule.it was fired too high,on too thick or had impurities in it.great idea all the same ;D

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MR TIKI knows his business.

I only cocked up a glazing once, and had to break a base off the tray, but probably my own fault.

Interestingly, one of the very few peices I still have 20 years later, and still use in the house as a fruit bowl.

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Cheers for that, I did get cheesed off with the chap, He seemed really cool at first but a PITA by the end, will go back somewhere else next time.
Lid stuck was partly my fault I'd built a lip inside, but whatever I did there was one bit of glaze I forgot to wipe, but he was adam-ant that it should be fired with lid in situ.

So to lift spirits, (only nearly ruined by tutor, and he really liked it) here's a relief of a pic I found in a Punk artists book or summat which wasn't this pic it was copied off this pic,

So mines a 3D relief copy of a copy!

currently on the wall.


and at college


Grizz ya'll have to reach out/take some pics if its owt like ya trailer building it should be smart

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LOLZ @ Reanimation.

Will do a group shot in a mo. As I said, all the good really decent artistic stuff went to friends, and I kept the dregs, and one or two that had specific meaning.
Remanber, I was more into the pointy bits of the teacher..... OOOOOffff, she was.

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So it would take a pointy teacher to make you go back?

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Yeeeeeeeeeeees.

reanimation said:

So it would take a pointy teacher to make you go back?

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Reanimation made me do it ;D ;D ;D


Ok, keep in mind, a few years ago, I pretty much had "fire sale" of everything I owned, what was not sold at silly prices, was given away to mates and strangers.
Loads of wooden furniture that was handmade in the house, but you need to come over for a cuppa tea to see them.

Here are a few bits I turned years ago (read 15 years or more)
The shallow container and lid was turned from the same piece of Guava tree stump that we cut from an old tree in my dads garden.

The other balls etc were more just exercises in finner chissel work.



This is actually larger in all directions than it seems, made it one year to go with a wrought iron bed I made at a mates engineering shop , when I still lived in Cape Town, one of few pieces I will probably keep for a long time. Perfect place where I throw clothes.



The one bowl I made, coils, which did get stuck to the tray in the kiln, note the lovely toxic glaze.....
The next pic is the inside, I still keep it, because the orange is so right.




Last of the small pieces I kept, all have specific significance to me, but absolutely no artistic merrit.


Reanimation, you asked for it....

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Sincerly Awesome stuff TBH beautiful orange too. Not just trailers eh.