THEMED TEAPOTS AND CUPS

OBJECTIVES Further develop a ceramic form by exploring

and a variety of hand building techniques to construct your teapot, including: coil, slab, additive, drape mold, slump mold, pulling a handle, and hollowing out a form to construct your spout.

Design and create a whimsical, functional form that has four main parts: body of the teapot, spout, handle, and lid

Create a teapot/teacup set that is themed and similar in form and surface design.

Create a lid with a rim so that the lid fits tightly.

BRAINSTORM/ PLAN Brainstorm by developing a minimum of

four sketches of teapots and matching teacups. Each sketch must follow a theme.

Choose your favorite sketch and get it approved by Mrs. Busby.

Before starting on construction, decide which hand building techniques would be the best to use in order to create the structure of your teapot. Explain the steps that you plan to go through to develop your design.

CONSTRUCT Construct the main body of your piece.

Proportions of all other pieces can be decided once you have the main body of your ceramic form pieced together.

Begin constructing and attaching the handle and the spout.

Create a lid to fit in the opening of the teapot. Create a rim on the lid.

Add surface design

TEACUP CONSTRUCTION

Once your teapot is finished and drying, begin construction your teacups that are a similar form and have a similar surface design or are themed to go along with the teapot.

Allow finished work to dry Glaze it once it is fired.

GEOMETRIC FORMS

IMITATIONAL

NON-OBJECTIVE

ADDITIVE SURFACE DECORATION

NATURE INSPIRED

ABSTRACT

ANIMAL INSPIRED

INTERESTING SURFACE DESIGN

Criteria 30   20   10 totalOverall appearance Great craftsmanship, clay was welded

together well. Joints are not visible. Cracks are not seen. Surface color is applied evenly. Visually pleasing. Teapot and teacups are interesting from all viewpoints. Glaze is applied evenly

Some areas appear to be a little. Roughly put together. Some cracks or rough surfaces are visible. Glaze is transparent in some areas.

Work is rough. Few if any areas are welded together neatly. Some parts may have fallen off due to using no slip. Glaze is applied roughly

Level of difficulty/creativity

Student challenged his or herself. He or she went above and beyond expectations for the project. Experimentation with different hand building processes is evident. Many details are incorporated into the piece making it interesting and unique.

Work is adequate and meets all expectations. Some details are visible. The forme create is somewhat interesting a few different glaze colors are used to ad detail. The theme is not visible, but all parts of the assignment are there.

Below expectations. Few areas of detail were added to the teapot and teacups. The form of the teapot and cups is very simple. No theme correlates between the teapot and teacups.

Functionality The teapot and cups work well and hold water. The handle is strong

enough to support the body of the teapot when holding. The only

holes that exist in the teapot are the opening and the end of the

spout.

  The teapot and teacups have all of the necessary parts: spout, handle, lid, and main body of the vessel. All parts do not work properly together and are awkward.

  There are many cracks causing the

teapot or teacups to leak. The teapot is missing one of the

required parts: handle, lid, spout.

 

Work ethic and participaton

Uses the entire period to work on artwork. Puts forth the best effort, follows all directions, and shows a positive attitude.

Uses some of the class period to work on artwork. Puts forth some effort, follows directions, okay attitude.

Does not use class time effectively no effort , does not follow directions needs to work on attitude.