Every shelf in my latest bisque and glaze firings held plates, except for the top one. There I placed four requested Red-breasted Sapsucker Jugbirds, the ‘North by North-West (NXNW)’ mugs and two bowls for donation for the September NWCF fundraiser ‘That Pottery Thing’.
To save space here I’ve assembled the photos with the ‘layout’ app so that you can see the top and side view of some pieces or have several plates in one image.
I keep trying to make larger pasta plates for a Calgary family. They ask for colourful and varied and large. These three might fit the bill and I am rather pleased with the blue one. I rarely use the Sienna pink slip but with a touch of red underglaze the flowers look good over the dark blue. It’s just lucky that this rose presented itself just as I was looking for a spot to photograph it.
An idea I shall use again is this happy result of concentrated parallel line painting. The combination of lime green, peacock and porcelain white slips resulted in a pleasing design. It’s just a small 7″ plate. 
Eric Metcalfe was pleased to have another chance to draw and paint on plates to relieve the current Covid loneliness. His three have a D theme which may refer to his questionable grades in school compared to his recent honorary Arts doctorate from his Alma Mater, the University of Victoria. Congratulations Eric! I intend to start making more white earthenware plates for a possible small re-start of Artist ‘Raids’ in the coming months.
It was a treat to join other NorthWest Ceramic Foundation board members for a garden meeting last Tuesday evening. This was the first time I’ve met the group in person since joining the board. I delivered the two bowls (there will be unusual contents in these and more surprise bowls at the September Gala, Auction and Award-presentation event That Pottery Thing), my auction donation of a special soda-fired Jugbird and I gave Carol Mayer a box of elderly pots of non-gallery pieces from my studio shelves for donation to ‘the HOB’. The latter is a Hospice Charity shop in the Dunbar area which is featuring donations from NWCF this week.
These are slab plates on which I used Port Moody artist Sara Graham’s Maple Leaf design as stencil and imprint.
Here are two more plates … I need to donate some for That Pottery Thing.
The RB Sapsucker Jugbirds were all collected last week, three for the Sunshine Coast and the last went to a NXNW listener.
