Kaye Blegvad's Blogvad

Saturday, February 22, 2014
New ceramics

I've finally updated my shop with a bunch of new ceramics - a batch of hands, and a lot of 'seconds'. Pieces that I affectionately refer to as 'weirdo corner' - the ones with, yknow, a little more character than they were intended to have, at low low prices.

If you'd like to stay updated on new ceramics etc as they go into the shop, I have a mailing list now - no spam, just a message when new pieces are listed. In case you keep missing things. Sign up here.

Thursday, January 16, 2014
Erik Blegvad

My grandpa Erik, my dad's dad, the first & oldest & greatest of the Blegvad illustrators, died on Tuesday morning. He was 90 years old. I should be so lucky to ever do a drawing one half as nice as one of his, or to ever have a moustache so fine.

There's a lot of family legends & proud stories about him but my favourite is this: he was illustrating a crowded naval scene for a magazine, and he used his wise judgement and great wit to put a tiny boat in the distance with flags that spelled 'fuck it' in semaphore. Somebody wrote in to complain and he was fired. That's my kinda illustrator! Hats off to you, sir.

These are some photographs I took of his study, in lieu of more words because if there's one thing I ain't it's a eulogist. Just - bye Grandpa. Thank you for the good times.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Burn, burn

Once again I return to a woman on fire.

Monday, January 13, 2014
Nails

Sunday, December 22, 2013
sad gif

Crude & simple gif about bein' sad. Happy holidays everybody!

Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Ceramic hands

A new batch fresh outta the kiln. A bunch of them went in the shop today - if you order in the next 24 hours, they'll ship in time for Christmas to UK addresses.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Ceramic comb & brush

For clumsy, gnarled grooming.

Friday, November 15, 2013
NYT : Sudden shifts on the health front

I did a drawing for the fine folks at the NYT yesterday. Letters on the topic of Obamacare, and the USA's most-expensive-healthcare-system-in-the-world. You can read the letters, and see the drawing in situ, here.

God I love the NHS.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Interview with Metal Magazine

Read all about it! 'It' meaning 'me'. I did an interview with the good people at Metal Magazine, and they sent an actual real live photographer to take some pictures of me in my studio. Here's a few of the photos, and you can click through here to read the interview. All your Kaye Blegvad questions answered.

Photos feature sneaky previews of work-about-depression and more-ceramic-heads and more-ceramic-cats and just, work-that-hasn't-made-it-to-the-blog. One day.

All credit to the photographer, Philipp Ammon.