It felt so good to finish painting the 10 jug birds on Friday. Now I can get a bisque firing started for all the plates sitting in my kiln! While they dried Alan and I decided to take advantage of a perfect end-of-summer day and put our bikes on his bike-rack and drove in to Vancouver's Coal Harbour. My picasa photo album shows our interests…
Alan took good photographs of my latest series of Jugbirds. This is the link to the Picasa album of 12 pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/112208740085943894765/August2012Jugbirds I'm particularly happy with the two new Loon Jugs and the 'Many a Slip' Jugbird. Do tell me which you like best!
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.…
Today 5 Vancouver artists came here for the day to paint plates and platters I'd made for them. Paul Mathieu brought along two platters he'd painted last time to show us how they have been finished with outlines in silver lustre. I'll just show those two first and make a second blog of photos of artists painting next. Paul had painted bone dry plates with…