Ugly ART

oops, I mean granny, not gladys. That’s my 88 year old brain at work.

gladys, good to hear you were laughing at the “gladys” plates. It’s kinda cute hey. I’ll be adding loads of modern art pieces in the coming weeks as I advertise at the cit, etc

Not a professional web designer by any means. I wouldn’t know how to write html if my life depended on it, but WYSIWYG is another story. Freewebs makes it easy, and the rest is just knowing when to stop, keep the colours crisp and clean, utilise a white background with no fancy crap, and write good content. Optimising it is another deal altogether. Thanks for your input and nice comments though.

I was laughing with your site not at it, but the same can’t be said for poor old great aunt Ethel and second cousin Gladys twice removed and their lovingly painted china plates. I felt terrible, but they did look funny all put together like that.

The site itself is one of the classiest and best-designed I have ever seen. Are you a web designer?

granny, 😉 I hope you were laughing at the cup and not my site … I spent days on that thing. Tell me you were laughing at the cup, please!

ARTistic-U said :

My website explains it – see http://www.freewebs.com/artistic-u

It is quite funny actually. I felt mean about laughing, but I couldn’t help it.

Aurelius said :

It’s a horrendous excuse for a cup, but you bought it?

Has it been cleaned since 77? Doesn’t look like it.

Haha, it’s even worse in real life. Ugly is an understatement. I buy homemade art. You know the “art” you created in grade 7 or at a pottery class? My website explains it – see http://www.freewebs.com/artistic-u

Ewwww, that’s gross! My imagination is filling in all the chunky bits.

I actually made something like that on the weekend. It was about 7:30am on Saturday after my morning coffee, then also on Sunday. Actually, my lunch doesn’t seem to be agreeing with me today, so I might go and make another at around 2pm.

You could write a good novel around this cup.

It’s a horrendous excuse for a cup, but you bought it?

Has it been cleaned since 77? Doesn’t look like it.

I’m in Canberra Potters. We’ve been around since ’75 – so someone who has passed through the doors may be responsible. That said – I doubt anyone will remember.

Now; I’m no expert, but that looks like cheapie student general purpose clay. It looks wheel-thrown by someone who was just learning. The base hasn’t been cleaned up, so either this was one of the first pieces that someone threw, or they just weren’t trying very hard. Maybe a kiddie? A school piece that a teacher marked the bottom of?

Glaze doesn’t give any clues either – pretty standard stuff that you’d get out of an electric kiln (the type they have in school art classrooms across the country).

Any other CPS folk lurking here care to correct/add anything? I’m pretty inexperienced, so they probably can.

contact the canberra pottery club, used to be in watson, last i recall. they may know who did it.

hehe, no Ant, it grew on me too. It’s my favourite piece now.

Granny said :

It is a brilliant site.

Thanks Granny – it’s amazing what you can do with freewebs and it only took about a week or two to create.

Thanks for everyone’s humourous responses 🙂 – nice start to the day !

Did someone say Ming? Could it be? 😉 But judging from the state of this piece, it’d be more like, uuhm, Ding?

Am I the only one who likes the mug?

I love his work and know it well. However, I think you may be discounting the Baroque influence.

Ming Dynasty – Johamitsu Bushidotsui – quite a famous potter in that 1677 era of potters

At a rough guess I’d say, oh, late iron age, tending into the early years of Roman inhabitance….

Then again, i could be wrong…

It is a brilliant site.

That writing scratched on the bottom is definitely not a sheltered workshop person. It’s just a person. Later on, most potters used a stamp.