Eli quietly spent much of the time on the fine plate with grey quarters. He is interested in patterns and in discovering what colours we have or can make. Again, we don't know which of his pieces will join the 8. His third piece that day was a mug I'd thrown for him. It is mainly black and, sorry, we didn't take a photo.
Just recently I had another group of artists here to paint plates. The plan is to get eight artists to paint several plates and donate one each for the upcoming Western Front fundraiser. Eric, Monique and Katie had already painted theirs in January so on this day my visitors were Sally Clay, Renée van Halm, Eli Bornowsky and Katie again. Paul Mathieu couldn't come so…
Here are photos of the plates painted by Eli Bornowsky and first-time visitor to my studio, Renée Van Halm. They both treated the underglazes very much as paint, freely mixing colours, rather than maintaining unicolour areas. Renée's are painted from collages she had assembled beforehand. It was marvellous to see how she created these bold images…
After I'd put together the previous blog Al forwarded the photos he took of our guests. His digital SLR camera really does take much better interior photos. Here they are.
Eric Metcalfe (whose birthday it was today!) invited Sally (Alison) Clay, Renee Van Halm (her first visit out here), Eli Bornowsky and Paul Mathieu to join him for another 'painting raid'. Forewarned, I slab-rolled lots of oval plates and platters, applied background slips and allowed them to become bone dry. I now have a good selection of jars of underglazes for my guests to use.…