Fishman Teapot

Finished the cute little teapot project for the morning Sculpture class. I finally had the freedom to pretty much work on whatever concept I wanted (although the occasional Papa Jung comment sometimes makes you feel like a failure :P). Here it is (courtesy of Amy for taking the awesome photos!)
It's a fish man, sitting on a rock with coral and sea anemone:

Yeah, well you know. I've come to the conclusion that a freshly opened bag of terracotta is perhaps the greatest thing in existance at this point. It was so easy to work with, and had a great smell! I'm still sort of bitter over the fact that our class is the only class that uses reconstituted leftover crappy crap crap clay, so it was nice to steal some new clay from the other room. El Creepy Greco actually helped slice the tea pot in half when I needed to scoop out its insides (I totally forgot the function of a teapot, it needs a cavity doesn't it...) and all alterations to it went smoothly. I'm just genuinely happy that I've made something out of clay that doesn't completely suck.

Unfortunately I don't think the teapot will be functional, the spout is too short and when you fill it with water and pour it looks like a fish voraciously spewing out stomach acid. The makeshift cork also doesn't stopper too well. This is better off being a fountain sculpture mounted to a wall or something... maybe in a monastary. How fitting.

maybe I'll fire it with some textured matte glaze or something... and ruin it

- Panda