Yes, I was heading out to the 7th National Teapot Show, a triennial celebration of teapots held at Cedar Creek Gallery in Creedmoor. I went to the show in the hopes of seeing some teapots, but what I found were TEAPOTS! which are entirely different animals.
Some were as small as my little finger, and others could have, with little difficultly, been mistaken for mid-sized mountains. There were teapots made out of stone, wood, metal, glass, porcelain, and anything else these artists could get their hands on.
Styles ranged from whimsical to disturbing to elegant and back to whimsical again. As brilliant as it is to see them in person, you can still see this year's teapots here.
So many gorgeous teapots... I am filled with teapot lust.
Oh! On another note: I've started a class at Artspace in sculpting the human form in terracotta! It is taught by Paris Alexander who also taught a fantastic figure drawing class. He is absolutely fantastic, and lots of his work is on display in his studio area in artspace (on the first floor and to the right). Soooo good!
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Wowa! Did teapot heads seem to be popular? I love clay! I was really into pottery and such when I was younger... kind of wish I had kept up with it...
I looked at Mr. Paris' website and OOOOOLALA! How does that work? How do you get such pretty smooth things out of a hunk of marble?
I think those were the only two that were actually heads, but there were others that used the human form. You can get back into pottery! I've been thinking about taking classes at Sertoma or Pullen. I keep up with the whole pottery thing because my mum is a potter...
I don't know how he does the marble, but I do know how he does the bronze work: makes a preliminary figure out of clay by building up each individual muscle group, and then makes a mold to cast the metal!
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