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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>RaggedRobynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18365815167505323306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830548173204745627.post-23607734285186494262014-03-28T12:24:00.002-07:002014-03-28T12:24:56.888-07:0010 Years of Clay<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello all! The last few months I have been otherwise distracted from my bloggedy blogging, however if you want more regular updates as well then follow me on twitter @RaggedRobyn</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night I was having a Facebook natter with Kim of Numinosity and I realised I have been specialised in clay for 10 years now. Someone once told me that it gets in your blood! Well that would be alarming wouldn't it!! Mud in your blood! YIKES...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought seeing as I'm always going on about uni etc, that perhaps I should share some of my works history with you so you can get an idea of my development as an artist. I recently came across some photos that show me as a young whipper snapper and a few of odds and bobs I have made, about four projects altogether. Unfortunately I cannot find any pics of my thrown work, so perhaps that is for another time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So...with no further ado.... prepare to be flabbergasted, dumnfounded and possibly alarmed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by the ceramics shenanigans</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and goings ons...</span></div>
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SLAB JUGS with oxide. The top right one was the very first pot I ever made. I was 16 yrs old</div>
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Me being DRAMATIC (for costume design)...those were also my first dreadies, not many photos of those frizzy fella's. I was never very good at sewing, never had much patience with it. Also I am all knuckles and not always good with fiddly work.</div>
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I think this was my first uni project - it was meant to be like a butterfly on the pebbly beach of a river...just passing by....(gross brown glaze, should of done a matt grey) </div>
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All these African water pot inspired terracotta knobbly pots were made in the first year of my degree... so I was 18 yrs old...always loved the squishy finger printy quality of mud :)</div>
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DOUBLE snout pots...with nipples</div>
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BIG nipple pot!</div>
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And this is me in a Saga pot....my friend Bex (who owned it) was not impressed when she seen this photo. AH WELL, we are still good friends now and the pot survived the weight of my scrawny limbs and second set of dreads - I'm on my third set now.</div>
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RaggedRobynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18365815167505323306noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830548173204745627.post-10093630218968836762014-01-06T04:10:00.001-08:002014-01-06T05:38:24.789-08:00Bundling<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sat on my cushion looking out at the trees naked twigs waving to me, it's wet out there, everything drips. The neighbours chimney smoke blows over the twiggy woods. I still have Christmas chocolate on my desk and I dip my fingers into the dusty contents. The cat has come in, sprinkled with rain she rubs her face on mine. Purr purr purr. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spitting chocolate dust and cat hair is not a great look! </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the tin roofed studio it can be cold, I wrap up in at least two layers on me legs, three layers of tops and up to four jumpers as well. I'm only tiny so my body doesn't seem to hold heat for long. Nothing like the super duper freezing temperatures many are putting up with in the States!!! I even heard about the US weather on my local radio news station! Everyone complaining about the flights being cancelled for a day...makes me giggle. Some people want to get on a plane even when the company running it and taking the money tells them it isn't safe! </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working on a new line of pendants made with strips of textured clay. I'm in love with a section of antique lace...it's texture seems to end up on nearly everything.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I listed some more bundles mostly from previous work...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a SALE of 25% OFF in my </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RaggedRobyn?ref=si_shop" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RaggedRobyn</a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Etsy shop. See shop announcement for coupon code.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a favourite time of year for me. The leaves are still falling from the trees, they are so dry and colourful they rustle and tumble around and the cats chase them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the newer work is pinned together with the wire hook. When I was a thrower I loved to make teapots because you make it in segments. So you throw the body, the foot ring, the lid and the spout and then turn and scrape to fit it all together...then the handle is pulled from a lump of clay...left to dry a bit, chopped and attached to the finished pot. It is all about timing and measuring. I'm pretty certain these beads will evolve into something insanely huge and quirky, if they havn't already</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The clapper on this one is made from five beads all stuck together before firing. I might have to take pics of it with the stacked beads on top as well because they look really grand like that. The gold doesn't cover the whole surface of these, I put a wash of white onto the black ceramic, then orange and just hints of gold. The photo's don't seem to show the contrast and depth in the painted surface. I find gold difficult to photograph especially on black clay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The article is about an exhibition in Gardiner Museum, Toronto, 'A bit of clay on the skin: New Ceramic Jewellery' Twenty artists from all over the world show over 140 pieces of body adornment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that was interesting and inspiring. And I thought some of my beads were 'mammoth' ha!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh and did you know if you are registered as self-employed artist in the UK that craft magazine subscriptions are fully deductible for tax!!! I have only just found this out...yikes...I wish I could backdate that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been away visiting for a few days then painting my studio...white! That way I can see what colours to add later on. It feels so much better in there now the awful yellow has gone. It now needs plants, shelves and hooks for tools.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I might add cumin orange to one wall, I like to use diluted acrylic paints to wash over layer after layer with a big sponge. For the time being I will be replenishing my kiln and bead stocks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before my week away I was intrigued by the many pricing blogs started by sparrow salvage. I find that my approach on pricing is quite different to others, and perhaps that is because I was taught a system of 'costing' and 'pricing' during my Uni years. We had lectures on these things in preparation for exhibitions and I have dug out the relevant papers that I had squirreled away and lugged around with me over the years...I am glad I kept them so I can share them with you guys and gals now! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To my mind pricing is totally separate to my feelings or emotional attachment to the items I make.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I don't get sentimental</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> or mark up prices because actually I want to keep them. I find it helpful to separate these feelings when pricing otherwise it can get unrealistic and that's when pricing becomes a chore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adjustments to this process will have to be made to suit what you make and how you sell it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some points will be relevant to you and others not so much. If you sell through Etsy then the Etsy and Paypal fee's are your gallery mark up's and commission costs. VAT may be separate</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and you will know if you pay this and how much to factor in for the final price. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These papers were given as guidance notes for graduates in the UK back in 2008. It is up to you if you work out an hourly rate and what that rate should be. I know personally I have a vague awareness of how long things take me but really it works out over the week rather than each individual bead set (I don't time myself for every set I make).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">finding tools and inspiration, ...(if I spend an afternoon at car boots specifically looking for new textures then this time is included in my daily and weekly rate - don't go mad with this, be realistic)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the time to make and decorate the work</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">time to tidy and clean your studio and tools after making, (if I have made something on the potters wheel it can take me a good 20 mins to clean everything after)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">photographing and listing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and also to reply to emails and Etsy convos, custom orders etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At some point you might want to include the time is takes to keep your finances and manage the money in and out of your business. I don't include this in my prices as I take forever on things like that and it would just end up silly. If you are the sort of person who incorporates this into your normal working day then it may suit you to include it in your pricing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of all this working out you must be able to look at the item for sale and think 'What would someone pay for this?...Is it reasonable to charge £X $X for it?...Is this my first one and will I get faster at making similar items?' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may have noticed that I have listed those 'singles' earrings as a pair. They are just too fantabulosis together and I was kinda regretting putting them as singles after a few days. Feels good to see them together now :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can hear it tweeting now so I will start there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Monday evening we were in the living room and there was a load of squawking and ruckus out the back. A wide eyed Rocklyn squealed 'THE BIRDS' and we ran through the kitchen and flung open the back door. Butter (my tabby cat) caught her first bird. It is a blackbird chick. We grappled it off of her and shut her indoors, the two blackbird parents were squawking and telling us off. The distraught sound of the parent birds made me very sad. The fledgling just has it's wing feathers and is just a wee bit smaller than a tennis ball. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we made it a bed with some wool and an old towel and put it out the way from the cats. It had a small flesh wound that seems to of healed now. After some internet searching I discovered that even if it was to learn to fly it will still need fed until it learns to find it's own food. There are sooooooo many cats around here and foxes and badgers too! I could never let it go it would just get eaten.We called the RSPB and they said they couldn't tell us anything or offer any help! They said to contact the RSPCA who's office never seems to be open and so we still have the birdie here in the house. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iv made it up some food with hard boiled egg, meal worms and moistened cat biscuits (I found this recipe online) and we are feeding it every hour with tweezers. If anyone thinks we are doing anything wrong please leave me a message because we don't know what we are doing and its a little scary. Of course we have had her here for nearly 4 days and we are getting quite attached. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rocklyn seems to have more of a parental instinct that I do because he gets up at sunrise when the bird wakes tweeting and goes to feed it. I don't wake up to anything. Once we had his 1 year old nephew over in the bedroom with us and I didn't even wake to him screaming! If the cats make a noise I'm up in a flash! Ha! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summer has arrived here in Wales (about time)...It's great...I'm sweating through my eyeballs! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'v had a creative block the last couple of weeks - then a few days of making and what do ya know it all fell into place.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we are lost among millions of muddy paths heading in every which direction, we pick one at random and end up staring at this...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These can be found in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RaggedRobyn?ref=si_shop">etsy shop</a>, I decided to list them as singles as they are super striking and wonderfully detailed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that they are not in my shop I have started to knit a big colourful blanket for my cheerful new home...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the fleece for this when I lived at the top of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, I had a caravan with a wee stove and a couple of cats and chickens around the place. Every day I would check the tide schedule and make my way down to the rocky beach where I busied myself picking winkles. Sometimes I battled ownership of the road with large highland beasts to get to the shop for a pint of milk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearby I discovered the whole universe in a ginger pony's eyes </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(only to be seen by sweeping it's mane from off it's face) big pools of iris blue getting darker in the middle and peppered with flecks of white, a truly</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> mystical being! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same neighbours that owned this pony had some sheep that they kept as pets. This is where I got the scrumptious chocolate brown fleece and some wirey stuff as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">These latest beads are inspired by Nigerian clay pots, my passion for African pots started when I seen a large storage pot in the British Museum in London that was made by Igbo people around 1954. I stumbled across this when I was about 18 years old and studying for my BA(hons) Ceramics.</span><span style="line-height: 16px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">I was taken by the scale and practical qualities it possessed...</span><br style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 16px;">The design of this round yet pointy pot was to store water in a hot environment. In order to do this the pot had a round bottom for stability on the sand, so that it could be dug into the ground away from the heat of the sun and for ease when carrying.</span><br style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 16px;">It had a big round belly, a small neck, a sturdy lip and three coiled lug handles that bridged the distance of the neck and chest. The main body of the pot was covered in nobbles of clay.</span><br style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 16px;">This pot and others like it were normally low fired in pits which left a smokey effect and sometimes a red/orange glow on the surface. Animal fat was readily available and this was rubbed into the porous surface then burnished as a way to make the pots water tight.</span></span><br />
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<i>This is the pot from the British Museum</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The shape and surface of my beads are influenced by the similarities between pots and the human body. The way a mug has a belly, a foot, a handle to fit your hand and a lip to fit your mouth. These beads may have belly's, lips, legs, necks and arms, and a polished skin like surface. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Shapes are developing every time I sit down at my desk to make and working with red clay again has brought back this passion for African pottery once more.</span></span><br />
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