Monday, June 29, 2009

The week in review...

This past week I made teapots. It was my first run of making them here at Mark's. Mark was busy with bowls all week and Joseph made coffee pots and casseroles. On Friday I took off to East Fork to work on the house a bit and lay out the workshop. It was blistering hot but I finally managed to find a layout that works for the location. In the last picture you can see the faint outline of the workshop. The large space on the right is the workshop and the smaller space on the left is the showroom. There is a 15' shed coming off the back marked by two stakes which are not in the picture. I am still going back and forth about the layout and so this is by no means a final draft but it gets closer every day. Tomorrow is more teapots...


7 comments:

scoffin said...

what sort of things are growing in the background there?

Alex Matisse said...

That is a garden that my neighbor Glen puts in. There are beans, corn, potatoes, squash, okra, cucumbers...that sort of thing.

FetishGhost said...

These trimming shots are very picturesque. Love the lighting choice in the top one...

ang said...

the endless variations of the teapot form amaze me, what do you think is your influence?

cookingwithgas said...

Nice teapots!

jimgottuso said...

that's a big bunch of teapots and i like the trimming shots too.

Alex Matisse said...

Thanks all....bigger teapots are in production!

The influence for these teapots is the first one on the board which Mark throws as a demo. This is his classic teapot form which he says comes from an old Cardew coffee pot variation.