Friday, November 13, 2009

Great resource for ceramic on Etsy:  Etsy Mud Team

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Fong Choo, miniature teapots.

Very interesting video from Fong Choo's workshop by the canderso


Be ready to spend some time, there are four volumes in real time videos, but it is worth watching them all. You will find great tips for working with porcelain.
Singapore-born  american potter from Louisville, Kentucky, creates miniature sculptural teapots reminiscent of the Yixing style pottery, dating to the 14th Century.
I was so inspired by his work, that I made my own little porcelain teapots and here they are!


Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Workshop at Taiwan Ceramics Biennale

Workshop by Chien-Chih WU at the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 08.
Some of Linda Mau's student from De Anza have experimented using a similar technique for her sculpture. Of course we do not have 3D modeling software in our studio, but otherwise this video will be very helpful.
Chien-Chih's work depicts stages of a fall of an invisible water bottle. During this process, he captures the instantaneous dynamic states of a liquid in a closed vessel at different moments in time in order to reproduce the bottle's outer form. By this means he provides the viewers with another angle for seeing things.