Month: February 2017

There were a lot of difficulties with this piece. I was unsure how I was going to make the form, whilst maintaining function and correct appearance. I wanted it to work like a teapot, but look like a manatee. I wasn’t expecting it to be too hard, but I was wrong. It was difficult to build the form, and I was worried the lid would take away from its manatee appearance.

I prefer original artworks over things that are copied. Naturally, I was going to do an original piece. My art is inspired from other artist’s work. I couldn’t find a single piece for a manatee teapot, but I’ve found multiple for shark teapots. I drew inspiration from that, and incorporated it into my project. All in all, I consider my piece to be very original, as it is not copied nor common.

For my Florida themed project, I chose to do a manatee teapot. This needed a lot of planning because I’ve never done something like it before. I had to sketch out multiple designs and think of a way that this could be used successfully. Even with the planning that I had done, It’s not quite enough, and I’ll probably end up changing the design, or changing it into a bank instead of a teapot if possible.

I also had to do a lot of research for this. Even with my knowledge of manatees, there were still some missing pieces I had forgotten, like the shape of their head and nostrils. I looked up a lot of pictures for reference so I would know how to construct this. I also read a few articles on manatees, so I could learn more facts about them and possibly put these facts into use by putting incorporating them into my project.