Yesterday I was surprised to open my BC Potters Guild newsletter and see that editor Melany Hallam has used my ‘Making Jugbirds’ slide show in a little article there. Very nice. After a month or so the newsletters are available to anyone visiting the guild website.       www.bcpotters.com click on ‘archives’

Busy day today. Following up from a press release sent to the two local papers two photographers asked to come by. They asked to take photos of some of the bowls that were donated by TriCity Potters for the Coquitlam Gogos fundraising Soup Dinner next Tuesday. I guess I was the only member available who also had some of the bowls here. We’ll see in Friday’s papers how I/they look!

Then Hannah Diamond came by to collect the bowls. She says there have been over 125 donated so the event should be a great success.

Yesterday I sprayed my 13 stoneware pieces with slips ready for bisque firing. After that they’ll only need liner glaze and wadding for the salt kiln. Now I’ve wedged some nice new Darcy’s earthenware and have begun to throw parts for lots of new jugbirds. That Studio Tour in April is coming up soon.

Here are the stoneware pieces drying. Slip has been painted on the beaks/spouts and eyes and painted with latex resist before the spraying. I hope for a sharp contrast between the two colours. There are also some wax resist brush strokes on the ‘wings’.