On this below-freezing day here on the West Coast it's a perfect day to finish off some stoneware pots and think about posting some photos of my recent glaze firing of earthenware. Just over a week ago just two Raiders, Mina and Michelle, joined me for a work day. As it turned out their few plates just helped me to fill my kiln for a…
While we busy ourselves with Christmas shopping and baking, gift-wrapping and good wishes-mailing, my artist friend Eric Metcalfe spends every day completing one or two extraordinary drawings or little paintings. He listens to Classical music, preferably Handel, or some of his vast collection of Jazz. But recently he was listening to news from South of here and became increasingly angry. The resulting drawings are of…
This evening's little chore is to pack up the most recently painted plates, ready for us to deliver to the Western Front tomorrow. That'll be our Solstice adventure. How marvellous to know our days will get longer now! The glaze firing included plates painted by the most recent visitors, Renée, Monique and Marlene, another one from Eric and four little dishes painted by one of…
Three artists, Renée, Monique and Marlene, were here yesterday for the final 'Raid' of 2018. They had a quiet relaxing day concentrating on painting their platters. Renée has completed two of her abstract collage images, Marlene completed work on a pair of platters she'd started earlier and then painted a pair of dishes depicting food and Monique spent her time on a delicate image of…
Five was a good number of Raiders this time. The pool/ping-pong table seats five and me comfortably. So there are just two more artists to feature in this blog. Mina painted one of the large round plates with bold red and then other coloured shapes. It's very striking! Then she added three more of the square, electric frying-pan formed plates. She is enjoying using those…