On my way to Whistler I stopped at the home of Bette Copeland in West Vancouver to deliver the Blue-Footed Booby. She had found the Booby jugbird on my website and bought it. But she has been away for some months so she allowed me to display it in our Fantastic Feast show in the interim. I think she's quite glad he's had a life!…
Lots of candy has been given out in spite of pouring rain and now, as I write, there are loud fireworks exploding all around the neighbourhood. While it's been raining I've been happily busy in my studio. At last I have space in a salt kiln scheduled for November so my recent work has all been stoneware. Yesterday was devoted to mixing more slip to…
My most recent glaze firing included a new bird, my interpretation of a Blue-footed Booby from Galapagos. This little Picasa album shows some of the process of putting this guy together. I chose to use the different colour of his back feathers to make a handle and to increase the volume of liquid this jug could hold. https://picasaweb.google.com/112208740085943894765/BlueFootedBoobyJug I had such fun assembling him. The…
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…