Yesterday I finished spraying the last of my stoneware pieces with slips for salt, loaded the bisque kiln and turned it on. Then I made sure I had plates ready and underglazes topped up for three artists coming to paint again today. Eric Metcalfe brought Monique Fouquet and Renée van Halm this time. Monique brought a home-made quiche, chocolate cake and an…
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.…