Multiple Jugs

Drawing Jugs

Made some jugs. Took some photos. Played with the photos. Traced and copied and drew on and drew over the photos. Not sure what comes next...

Life Drawing

Feel bad because I've not been to as many life drawing classes as I planned. It's because it's not on my campus and I have to be organised enough to pack up and drive over there on time. Charlie the tutor is brilliant and tells you exactly what's making your drawing go horribly wrong. Here are some hands. I had some help with the thumb, which wouldn't go where it was supposed to go.

Things I'm Not Making

At my first tutorial in January I'll be presenting a huge list of ideas that I won't be pursuing. Played with coloured slips at the end of term. I like these photos of the process - painted jug shapes on plaster bats. The vessels I made were clunky and horrid though.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year. Not many decorations to take down as these two creatures were the only things that I managed to put up. In fact one of them was a forgotten decoration from last Christmas, so not much of an achievement. The photo was going to be my Christmas card, but that didn't happen either. Five people got a card, four of them relatives. For the rest..here's what you should have received in the post...

Jug of The Month - December

At my mum's in Birmingham for Christmas and found this on the shelf above the cooker in the kitchen. A Myott Festival jug from the 1970s. Love the long handle.

Mum bought it from ebay - she used to own a tea set like this ....

 

...and is now wondering why she got rid of it. If we're both now reclaiming our brown and orange ceramic past through ebay we'll need a system to make sure we're not bidding against each other.

Jug of The Month - November

I was forced to bid for this on ebay when I was teaching Britain Since 1930 and studying the work of Clarice Cliff. My class had explored her patterns and shapes, and designed their own tea service. Then we got onto the subject of being a collector. We thought about whether we would collect a particular pattern, such as crocus, or a shape, like a conical sugar sifter. We looked at ebay to investigate prices and it seemed only natural at this point to demonstrate the bidding process to my class. I set a limit and didn't win for a while, but then I won this spring crocus jug. Hooray! Collecting Clarice Cliff with Ms Corbett. I'm sure that qualifies as history, ICT, art, design technology, citizenship, PSHE and numeracy. But not PE.

I also won an autumn crocus saucer. Then I stopped bidding.

Look at these lovely brush marks.

I watched the 1985 Channel 4 videos "Pottery Ladies. Miss Cooper, Miss Cliff, Miss Rhead and all the forgotten girls...... " for my dissertation research. They are excellent and I would love to have my own copies. Highlight for me is Ethel Barrow with her hair set for the TV talking about producing patterns and HER name going on them. The Art Director - Clarice in this case - got the credit. Ethel then aggressively paints a conical sugar sifter to prove her point. Here's Ethel Barrow in the 1960s...

And here she is in 2000 when she was 90 years old...

This is from the Clarice Cliff Collectors Club...www.claricecliff.com/features/ethel_90th_birthday/index.shtml

"Originally Ethel was doing all the Crocus flowers, Cissy Rhodes did the leaves, and Clara Thomas the banding. Suddenly though, they were incredibly busy, and a special ‘Crocus shop’ was made on the floor below the Bizarre shop. The team was enlarged and each girl given a specific colour to apply, to speed up the painting to cope with demand. Ethel did the orange flowers, two girls did blue flowers, two purple, there were two ‘leafers’ and two finishers.

At this time the Crocus name was written on the ware above the backstamp by the ‘leafers’ which is why it is in green. The girls at this time were Nellie Webb, Doris Thirlwall, Clara Thomas, Ivy Stringer, and Winnie Pound. They were all on pieces work so the faster they painted the more they earned!”


The pottery ladies..the forgotten paintresses...


Annie Clews

Cissy Rhodes

Clara Thomas

Doris Pemberton

Doris Thirlwall

Eileen Moore

Ethel Robinson

Ethel Steele

Florrie Winkle

Gladys Broad

Gladys Brown

Ivy Ford

Ivy Stringer

Joyce Phillips

Mary Dayson

Mary Harper

Nellie Harrison

Nellie Hill

Nellie Webb

Nora Dobbs

Peggy Davies

Phyllis Norris

Rene Burton

Rose Cumberbatch

Winnie Pound