International small teapot show

A friend of mine emailed me this link/show. Teapots are always good to look at weather good of bad I think. In any large group shown, you can always pick out a few that are similar in some way to your style of doing pots. Here you can practice critiquing surface, functional and form all in the privacy of your own home! Here are some of my favorites and of course all are altered. Have fun looking!


http://gallery.saddleback.edu/shows/25FEB08/virtualshow/






We are doing teapots in my class this session. Teaching how to make a teapot is hard because I feel like I'm still always trying to make that unique, perfect teapot. As I've watched several of my student work on there own teapot, I think I've realised that trial and error of all those pieces are good for everyone, even if they don't work quite right. One tends to keep their teapots and over the years I've really studied some of mine.If they pour and there where no cracks I think its was a successful first attempt at something very hard.
On that final note, I'm in a teapot show this summer so I need to work once more on that perfect pot!