Help me choose! I have to pick a teapot for Portland Pottery's annual show; the one I bitch about every year, because I have to make a teapot for it. I'm the one who hates making teapots, remember?
But to quote Will Munny, "I ain't like that no more." This year I caught the teapot bug and made nine in one day, most of which were in this last firing. I took shots of my favorites:
I love all of them but if I had to pick, I like A the most. I like how the crease points to the little detail at the bottom of the pot and the curly lid handle.
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Lori Keenan Watts (aka me) is a potter, gardener, and avid reader from Augusta, Maine. Though I started my university education in surface design for fabric, clay quickly grabbed me by the heart and redirected my creative impulses. I have been a potter for over 25 years -- hard to believe. The most valuable years of my ceramic education were spent in graduate study at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, under the tutalage of Dan Anderson and Paul Dresang.
My aesthetic is guided by my love of the material itself. What fascinates me and makes a pot compelling for me is the clay-ness of clay: the squooshiness that becomes the adamantine solidity. I also like patterns, unexpected proportions, and when the flame comes along and dissolves part of my careful decorating efforts! I am obstinate about this aesthetic, to a point which might be called pig-headed, but hey, if you don't like what you make, why bother?
My happy little family also includes my husband, musician and photographer (and author of the book Alewife) Doug Watts; five cats; and a turtle, all foundlings and rescues of one stripe or another.
8 comments:
Boy, you DID catch the bug. They are all precious, but I vote E or F.
They are all beautiful, but i vote for F or A....
They all have some gorgeous details and it´s hard to choose...
Good luck.
I like A & F. They are all great.
B and F are mym favorites!
All are pretty, but Teapot A first for the form and decoration combined, then F second choice, and then D because who can resist those polka dots.
I love all of them but if I had to pick, I like A the most. I like how the crease points to the little detail at the bottom of the pot and the curly lid handle.
I like C & D the best. Tough choice!
I like A, love the dots with the angle and C, great handle- the whole teapot seems to be reaching out~
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