Opening the kiln the other day was, as usual, rather exciting. Not only did it contain the tiles painted by TriCity Potters but there were a dozen of my jugbirds in it too. The freshly mixed glaze behaved properly. I set the end 'soak' for 30 mins this time to try to make sure there were no bubbles from the melting, and no, there weren't.…
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…
Sitting in the shade on our North-facing patio on a perfect sunny Saturday morning, waiting for my glaze kiln to complete its overnight firing, I realize that it's been one busy week! But TriCity Potters, your tiles are in this firing so I plan to take them out of the kiln tomorrow. Here are some events in a potter's life from the past week. Last…
For some time now my fellow potters have been suggesting that they'd like to have a tile-painting session with me. The problem is that a workshop involves transporting lots of tiles, slips and other equipment to our meeting venue. So, at the June meeting I invited any interested members to join me on a summer week-day for an afternoon of playing with slips, right here,…
People who toured gardens in the Port Moody Art in the Garden event recently were invited to enter up to three photos in a competition. I had taken photos of the pottery and plants in my garden and then lots more of other gardens on the Sunday. You saw those in Picasa albums in my blogs. I wound up choosing to submit three photos of flowers…