Sallyd Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 I've really enjoyed this show, and totally agree with the judge's final decision. The winning potter's work is just my cup of tea. I won't say who it is.......don't want to spoil it for anyone watching on catch - up. Sally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Sally, I totally agree. And for anyone who wants to "replicate" the challenges: The Great Pottery Throwdown Challenges Week 1 5 Nesting Bowls Identical pulled handles on 10 contemporary and 10 traditional mugs 20 minutes to throw maximum number of egg-cups off the hump Week 2 Sink with correct sized hole in bottom Blindfold tallest straight-sided cylinder Decorate 9 Tiles Week 3 Raku 10 long-necked identical vases 2 thrown candlesticks copy of demo Decorate 3 Jugs with slip Week 4 Garden Sculpture 5ft high Create a Strawberry Pot from a tall cylinder Thrown Plate Week 5 Bone China Chandelier from slip-cast moulds Banding enamel on plate rim Thrown sphere Week 6 Porcelain tea set – 4 cups and saucers, tea pot, milk jug, sugar bowl and cake stand Pierced cylinder 3 thrown jugs with pulled lip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerdry Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Aaaarrrgghhh!!! I want to know who won!! I don't suppose someone would PM me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerdry Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 OK, someone did. Thanks Min! I feel so much better now, the suspense was killing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Butterfly Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hey everyone! Thanks for the warm welcome. I loved the final episode. I was literally on the edge of my seat, squealing at the tv! It's so inspiring to see any ceramic work being created, and I can't wait to have a go at some of the projects. What will they make next season?! :-D I've particularly enjoyed seeing some of my younger family members get excited about clay after watching the show - only four and six years old - they have been glued to the screen and loved watching it all come together, and kept asking really good questions about the processes. Every time I have visited them in the last few weeks we have sat and made things in clay together, pinch pots, slab xmas decorations etc and they have been thrilled with what they have created. I've recently joined my local Anglian Potters association because I just want to talk about pottery all the time and I hope to find some kindreds there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celia UK Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hi Louise - I'm an Anglian Potter so I'll keep an eye out for you at the demo days - an absolute MUST, really worth a day out. If you're stuck for transport, I'm in St Ives and can always take a diversion and pick you up. Just PM me. Am invigilating at the AP selling exhibition tomorrow - penultimate day in Cambridge. 65 potters' work from beginners to professionals, always worth a visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Butterfly Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hey Celia! I've planned to come along to the show tomorrow with another pottery obsessed friend, so perhaps I will see you there. :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiselleNo5 Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Sally, I totally agree. And for anyone who wants to "replicate" the challenges: The Great Pottery Throwdown Challenges Week 1 5 Nesting Bowls Identical pulled handles on 10 contemporary and 10 traditional mugs 20 minutes to throw maximum number of egg-cups off the hump Week 2 Sink with correct sized hole in bottom Blindfold tallest straight-sided cylinder Decorate 9 Tiles Week 3 Raku 10 long-identical necked vases 2 thrown candlesticks copy of demo Decorate 3 Jugs with slip Week 4 Garden Sculpture 5ft high Create a Strawberry Pot from a tall cylinder Thrown Plate Week 5 Bone China Chandelier from slip-cast moulds Banding enamel on plate rim Thrown sphere Week 6 Porcelain tea set – 4 cups and saucers, tea pot, milk jug, sugar bowl and cake stand Pierced cylinder 3 thrown jugs with pulled lip YOU ARE MY HERO I LOVE YOU This is just what I wanted!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 YOU ARE MY HERO I LOVE YOU This is just what I wanted!!! No probs, if you want to ask questions about any challenge on that list, don't leave it too long. I can keep watching the first one until 16 December, and the last one until 7 January before they disappear. (With the other four spaced oddly in between.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiselleNo5 Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Thank you so much ... I want to try some of these. Not all, because I really don't want to make a chandelier even just for fun. But the tiles and the throwing. Great practice, makes you step outside the box a bit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 If only we non Englishers could click on Ann's list, say week 6, and - surprise surprise - the video starts.... ... Thank you Ann and all who contributed to this thread! I really hope some day we can watch the show too. I would pay for it! Evelyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 I totally understand the way the BBC is funded, but what is annoying is that if I had a video recorder, I could record the programmes onto tape, and keep them forever, and share with my friends. I don't have a video recorder, therefore can't offer to help you out. I'm unable to watch them live, so am limited to watching them for 28 days only on iPlayer. I wish I could help you all. Despite the moans and grumbles, it has been quite interesting and if I'd had better throwing skills I would have applied to take part. Today I've done something new...... sgrafitto on a slip cast mug, and on four tiles. I was inspired by week 2. I used two different base clays (speckled stoneware and red earthenware) and three different slips (speckled stoneware, red earthenware and an almost white casting slip) and have carved the same pattern through the slip on all four. They are well wrapped as I won't be back to the centre until 7 Jan now. Next new challenge will be the pierced cylinder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiselleNo5 Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 Today I've done something new...... sgrafitto on a slip cast mug, and on four tiles. I was inspired by week 2. I used two different base clays (speckled stoneware and red earthenware) and three different slips (speckled stoneware, red earthenware and an almost white casting slip) and have carved the same pattern through the slip on all four. They are well wrapped as I won't be back to the centre until 7 Jan now. Next new challenge will be the pierced cylinder. A friend gave me two small mug molds for slip casting. Well, I can make mugs anytime I want on the wheel, and it's easier than slip casting. But I thought I could use just the body of the mug and cast it very thin in porcelain, then do a sgraffito resist for a design that would shine through with a candle inside. I want to try the pierced cylinder too. I totally think we should have a thread! Can we have a thread? Am I authorized to make a thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughlin Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 Just saw this thread... I watched the show live on my computer on BBC2 UK (it's available streaming there, too) every week from the US without using a sketchy streaming service or anything - it's really easy and no one makes any money illegally, though I suppose it's very minimally illegal? to make your computer think it's in England re a VPN... so I'll be discrete beyond noting that, 'specially as I'm only a long-time lurker in these great forums. I like to watch foreign TV and do it all the time, and I'm just a non-techy (well, very semi-techy) grandmother. Can be done, anyway, and everybody is so sad about missing it. I thought GPTD was a terrific, actually - full of frustrating moments for knowledgable potters, but pitched so well for giving a general-interest audience a really interesting feel for what it's all about. The Guardian's actually given it several really nice reviews (I read the Guardian too, such an Anglophile), and it sounds as though it was pretty popular over there, which astonished me as it's such a quiet, gentle show. Sans the mean, hectic, hyper-competitive, histrionic US-style Schadenfreude that characterize US 'reality TV' I don't think it'd take off at all here. The UK, I've been told, values its potters more than the US does. It was fun to watch it with my daughter who has little interest in or knowledge of process at all. She was absorbed and fascinated, so there you go. Always nice to promote the art, even if it's not the finest example or the most accurate information, seems to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted January 23, 2017 Report Share Posted January 23, 2017 Throwdown starts again on 2 February on BBC2. Hurray for UK viewers, and sorry to anyone else who can't watch it legally. I won't be posting illegal links, but if anyone wants a list of challenges, I'll be happy to provide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleasant Pottery Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 I also discovered it is being shown on Makeful, Wed. evenings at 9:00 if you have that network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted February 3, 2017 Report Share Posted February 3, 2017 Looks like it is available for purchase from the BBC. Don't know if this will work from outside the UK. Can't test it myself......... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08d6897/products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preeta Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Ann are the challenges still the same? or have they changed that? lucky you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Looks like the challenges will be different. This week's were: 16 piece dinner service (Large plate, small plate, bowl, beaker), tallest cone, sponge design on small and large jugs that need to match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Can't buy it from BBC in Canada or the US . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Can't buy it from BBC in Canada or the US . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 It is funny watching them try to fit ceramics into a tv schedule, they couldn't turn any of their dinner sets and made the kiln tech do a fast glaze fire and mess up some of the work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_L Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 I like watching it but it does irritate me. As well as the compressed timescales they've cut it to minimise the viewing time for the throwing/making section and the camera work is very choppy so you can't really watch what they are doing, yet much slower shots for later on. Very inconsistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preeta Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 oh no. that's not good. the organizers need to figure out a better format or better challenges. i can see it fitting a tv format. not real time. i can see setting a throwing time and a trimming time and figuring out a reasonable drying time. i wonder if the deciding people included potters. i am still glad it exists. i hope by the next show they can iron out all the hiccups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 It is funny watching them try to fit ceramics into a tv schedule, they couldn't turn any of their dinner sets and made the kiln tech do a fast glaze fire and mess up some of the work. I am surprised how poor some of them are at throwing. It was a major part of last year's programme, you'd have thought they would have practised a bit more beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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