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…
Just to show that my life isn't all about pots I'll post some photos taken this past weekend. We stayed with our good friends Roy and Maureen Carlson at their cottage at Maple Bay which is on the US/Point Roberts side of Boundary Bay. It's only an hour's drive from Port Moody but it is so rural and quiet it seems like a Gulf Island…
Today, on what must be one of the hottest days of the year (only 30C or so, those people I know who live in Texas!), I was completely content to sit in my cool studio and assemble a Blue-footed Booby Jug. I threw the parts on Tuesday and left them to firm up while I glazed all day yesterday and slab-rolled 7 oval plates for…
Apparently people would like to know how I make terra sigillata. My method, thanks to long-time Ceramics technician at Emily Carr U, Gail Carney, is low-tech and doesn't involve chemical wizardry, just scales, a measuring jug and two very large buckets. I have a feeling some of the terra sig experts might find my method too unscientific but it produces what I want. Below is…
Yesterday I enjoyed myself painting the last two jugbirds with whatever colours of slip that I fancied. So they're totally imaginary birds. As soon as they dry in the current summery weather I'll terra sig the bases with the nice new batch of terra sigillata I made up the other day. The photo shows how much water I simmered off - the pan was filled…