Mahlke Face Jugs
portraits
Many of my early face jugs were, alas, based on the photos I snapped on my iPad of my own grimacing and furrowed face. I was a very cheap model. In an effort to gain commissions for my pottery portraits, (and not look like a demented, self-absorbed nut) I decided to memorialize some people who are actually well known…and admired.
Gallery 1 Portraits:
Georgia O'Keefe (artist), Henry Son Thomas (artist, musician), alt side of Thomas, Alfred Hitchcock (film), Howard Finster (artist), Stevie Ray Vaughan (musician), Mississippi John Hurt (musician), John Dillinger (criminal), Vincent Van Gogh (artist)
Gallery 2 Portraits:
Robert Johnson (musician), Abraham Lincoln (politician), Muddy Waters (musician), Charley Patton (musician), Lanier Meaders (artist), Mr. Imagination (artist), Jimmie Lee Sudduth (artist), William Burroughs (writer), Howlin' Wolf (musician)