2017-02-12 - Sunday - Fong Choo workshop, day 2

Sunday was the second day of the Fong Choo workshop. It was a good day with lots of information, demonstrations, and discussions.

Making spouts.

Working with the spray booth.

Some of the work he made during the workshop.

Mugs.

Teapots.

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2017-02-11 - Saturday - Fong Choo workshop, day 1

Saturday was the first day of the two-day Fong Choo workshop presented by Carolina Clay Matters Pottery Guild, and it took place at Central Piedmont Community College.

Fong has been making small, porcelain teapots for many years and he showed us many techniques and shared his sales philosophy with us.

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2016-09-17 - Saturday - Muddy Fun and teapots

Saturday was Muddy Fun day and we had another great group of students and wonderful volunteers.

Angela helping out.

Vince explaining process.

After lunch I worked on my teapots for a while.

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2016-09-15 - Thursday - Urns and teapots

On Thursday I worked on the pet urns and the lids for the teapots. Unfortunately the urn photos were horribly out of focus so they are no longer with us.

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2016-09-08 - Thursday - Teapots and fish

Thursday I made spouts and lids for my teapots. Teapots are quite a bit of work, with lots of individual parts and connections. I don't think people sometimes realize how much work goes into them. I also threw some tea bowls.

I loaded the fish into the bisque kiln along with some of my other pots and a bunch of students' work.

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2016-09-07 - Wednesday - Teapots

Wednesday I started on the bodies of a group of teapots.

In twenty-five years I have made four teapots. Now I am starting on four at once.

I have been thinking about making teapots for a while and I would like to experiment with the form. To do that I have to start somewhere, so I started with some traditional shapes. We'll see where we go from here.

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