Tea pot

My idea for my tea pot was initially a bee hive with a common round handle on. But I wanted it to be more interesting than just a bee hive, so I decided to make my spout a bee which looked like it was flying out of the hive, and my handle a tree branch. 

First, I started out with 4 different little parts. I rolled out a big slap, cut out a circle shape then mold it into a bowl shaped mold to make the top round part of the hive. I then used the rest part of the slap and make a cylinder which its diameter must match with diameter of the mold. The third parts was the bee spout and last is the tree branch handle. 

To accentuate the texture of the beehive. I used the tiny extruder and extruded tiny little coils then "slip and score" them on. It took forever! But I love it. I also decorated on two little bees on the sides and a flower on top.

Finally, I low fired it with some CTL's, Slips and Yellow and Brown LG's.
And it functions as great as it looks.

Coil Pot

I started out with a kite shaped base cut out from slap. Then built up with coils in variety shapes (triangles, rainbow, braid, ...). These are all hand-built coils.  

 

I then, instead of dunking the whole pot in high fire glazes, I brushed them on. Brushing on glazes was a little tedious to feel in all the tiny gaps but it will accentuate the texture better. I chose Tenmoku, Albany Slip Brown and the Blue. 

But, eventually, the blue did not really work out. That's why there's some green white-ish spots but it's look pretty good to me. And I am happy how it turned out to be.