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Oak Boesky posted an update
Catch up Day
I’ve been busy the last few days so did a few drawings today to catch up. I’m missing a few because a rock and an object with a cracked surface, just haven’t been within reach when I am drawing. The drawing with different spouts I just haven’t photographed yet. However, it was interesting to post this teapot. I am working on next to the sketch of the hedgehog teapot for the complex and simple teapot assignment. I couldn’t really think of what would make a teapot complex at that point and so went back to some rules of abstraction; making things bigger, small smaller, Distorting them, fracturing them, exaggerating, certain features (that was a new drawing too!) And so on. So I had a basic teapot shape and decided to slice it in half and move one portion up in one portion down. And then I got rid of half of it and added legs put the spout on the back and the handle became the hedgehog snout. Why hedgehogs? I haven’t a clue but it popped into my mind, so I went with it. On the real teapot, I was working with the idea of changing forms by using darts. I didn’t do much planning, but I can see where I will play with this idea in the future. Of course the spout is not in its final form, or the handle and lid. I’m not even sure I will fire this or just consider it a sketch along with the daily clay drawings.
Melissa Williams and Joshua Collinson2 Comments-
These are amazing! I’d love to see your hedgehog teapot in clay someday!
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Thanks Melissa,
I have a whole series of whimsical teapot watercolor I did when I had a shoulder injury and couldn’t do anything clay. I’ve decided to make them as part of my summer production. I’ll have to add the hedgehog teapot to the rotation.
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