I opened the kiln on Sunday and Alan has now taken good photos of all the work. There are more than twenty plates and seven of my jugbirds. For those of you who are interested in seeing how various artists tackle the curved surface of a slab-made plate with underglazes I'll post photos of their work, two people per blog. Paul Mathieu spent much of…
Four 'Raiders' came out to Port Moody to spend the day painting plates last Friday. Eric chose not to come this time, but sent a platter that he'd painted at home to be included in my next firing. It'll be a presentation piece. The artists who've volunteered to provide a plate to form a set of six for this year's February…
The visiting artists had to wait a couple of weeks for me and my tile-painting friends to fill the kiln but finally it was fired and opened on Sunday. My previous blog shows the TriCity Potters' second batch of tiles and my next will show my new exotic jug birds, but I have photos of all the new plates here. Eric continues to enjoy…
There were tiles left over from the recent tile-painting workshop for TriCity Potters so I suggested some of them might like to drop by and paint some more. I told them that I would be busy getting my recently completed jugbirds painted while they worked. So six capable potter friends arrived at 11am, with casual lunch offerings too! and we had a delightful time of quiet productivity…
Eric Metcalfe organized another 'Raid' for yesterday and Eli Bornowsky, Jacqui Ross, Paul Mathieu and Karen Henry joined the expedition. Each person let me know ahead of time what colour they'd like their plates to be painted, if not left white. I apply my coloured slips to the plates when leather hard, so some were Naples Yellow, Green, Blue and Grey. Paul asked me to make him my…