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,…
In my last glaze firing there was a small vase painted by Eric Metcalfe. He is having fun applying his boldly coloured designs to a 3D form. When I dropped it off at his home in Mount Pleasant's Western Front he showed me a series of gouache paintings which he says have all evolved from his experience painting on my oval plates. The result of…
This post features photos of the latest plates painted by the other two recent visiting artists, Eric Metcalfe and Renée Van Halm. Eric had painted two quietly at home and on this day painted one more. One of them is unusual for him and is titled 'L'Age d'Or: Beunel/Dali, and was inspired by a random film image. I'm particularly enjoying the first plate shown on…
Four artists have waited patiently while Al and I took a trip to Austin TX between the bisque and glaze firings of their latest work. Now Al has taken his usual excellent photos of them all, so I'll just post them here. Marian Penner Bancroft was here for…
Here it is, the end of Easter Sunday and I've just turned on a bisque firing. What would my father have said? But today, somewhat rainy, was treated as a work day. The pleasure of having the family here for a meal will happen tomorrow. But I had promised the most recent group of 'Raiders' that I would be filling the kiln…