4Gabriella+A



Gabriella Andersen 1st hour 8th grade Art Teapot and __#|Tea box__ I chose a sunflower teapot as my theme. I did a sunflower theme because my mom’s kitchen is sunflower theme. I thought the sunflower teapot would go good in my mom’s kitchen. As soon as I bring it home she can set it up in her kitchen for everybody to see. I’m sure everybody who comes over will like it. The process took a long time and everybody was a head of me on their teapot. I had to cut out six slabs of clay and put them together. When I went to put some of my slabs together they were to dried out. I had to cut two new slabs of clay out. After I had all my slabs close to the same amount of moister and measurement I stuck my sides and bottom together but not the top. After my sides and the bottom were together I kept the top of so I can work on the inside. My teapot kept not sticking together and it wasn’t working out so I took some clay and rolled it out like a snake and stuck it in the cracks inside my teapot. I had to smooth out the snacks and also on the outside I had to work the points together. I rolled out some clay and cut it into a square and rolled it together and smoothed it out for my spout. I had to get some really moist clay for my handle after my handle was done I had to let it sit for a day to dry out a bit. The next day I stuck my handle to my teapot. The handle didn’t want to stay so I got some clay and rolled it into a snake. I wrapped the snake around the spout and smoothed it to the spout and teapot. I stuck my top on and cut out my lid. I smoothed my teapot and made finishing touches and it was already to be fired. Once my teapot was done in the kiln room I had to sand it. I finished sanding my teapot and it was really smooth and ready to be painted. I drew my picture on my teapot and began to paint. After I painted the outside I had to do the same to the inside. Once I was all done I had to go back into the kiln. I had to start my box while my teapot was being fire. I decided to paint it with blue, yellow, and green stripes. First I painted the blue stripes then the yellow then green. The box turned out good. My teapot was also done and it turned out wonderful. I also did a painting before my teapot of my teapot. __#|The painting__ I liked it was good and there’s nothing I would change about it. The teapot was a long process but it turned about wonderful. There’s not a thing I would change about it I love it. My teapot is almost perfect. So my painting and teapot I liked but my tea box not so much. I didn’t really like the stripes. The stripes looked kind of sloppy. If I had to redo it I would do it differently. I think I would have painted a light blue sky with white fluffy clouds. This process was a long process to do. My painting and teapot turned out nice. My tea box turned out fine but I would have done it differently. I thought this was a really fun project. I would love to do it again.