First time Raider Jan Wade jumped right in to painting her plates, confidently covering four in no time! She decided to limit her palette to mainly black and white, having worked with lots of bright colours on the previous day. She tells me that she has often painted with found objects, particularly Thrift Store wooden bowls so she is familiar with…
Just for the record I like to post photos of work painted by my 'Raiders'. I left the most recent finished plates with Philippe at ECU the other day. He headed off to catch the bus, swinging his three new plates in a carrier bag, looking forward to studying his work once he got home. The layering of colours on his three is quite delicious.…
Finally there were enough pots to fill the kiln for a bisque firing, thanks to another day of my studio being 'raided' by Vancouver painters. We had a fun day with Philippe Raphanel, Mina Totino and her first-time-here friend Jan Wade. They each painted several plates, with Philippe astonishing us with a variety of layered colours, experimental wax resist again and a final swoosh of thinned underglaze…
How can it be March already? After concentrating on getting tiles and lots of Raiders' plates fired recently I am now trying to catch up on making lots of my own work. There are jugbirds to be made but I have to confess that the idea of painting the new plate shape myself was rather intriguing. So I have been applying colours without having a planned…
On Thursday evening I attended the preview reception for the Western Front Gala Auction. Son Mike joined me and we took a careful look at all the donated art. There were photographs, prints and paintings waiting for the Gala evening ( which is happening as I write) as well as our six specially painted plates. The Luxe Hall (originally built to house the Knights of…