Tea cup

Now in order to make a matching set of these tea cups, I'm going to have to set, what I call a a pointer. In order to determine where my clay will be stopping. So I've drilled a hole,...

So now that I've got the pointer set properly. I'm going to show you how to throw another piece so that it will be the same size. Again, center that piece of clay. Leave yourself about...

So once you've got your piece on center. Whether you're using a Giffin grip or whether you've just centered it and put three lumps of clay. All the way around to hold it in...

Now I'm going to show a small pulled handle for the tea cup. To match this other tea pot, that we did. Again, just roll a little carrot shaped form. And then, hit it against the canvas to make...

So of course a very traditional type of pot to make would be a tea pot and I've got a couple different examples here of tea pots; I'm going to show you both of these, these styles....

So now that we have two complete teapots, the next logical thing to do is to go ahead and make some teacups to go along with them. So I'm going to show you a couple of different versions of...

So now that you've got the basic shape you're looking for; you want to go ahead and take your hard rib, smooth that exterior curve; you can use your left hand to give a little bit of...

So, now on my teapots I like to have a tea catcher. So, I use a hole cutting tool which is a pipe cut on a slant so that it's got a really sharp edge. But, it makes a perfectly circular hole....

OK, next we're going to prep and cut our flowers and our greenery. So, you're not going to want any foliage to go into the container where water or any moisture could really get to it....