Last Thursday I opened the glaze kiln so I had some new plates, jug birds and mugs for ArtWalk. And finally the plates painted by my visiting artists Eric Metcalfe, Allyson Clay, Monique Fouquet and Eli Bornowsky were finished. Al took these photos and the artists seem pleased with the results. I make them by slumping a slab of red earthenware clay into my wheel-thrown…
Before and after the crazy few days of NCECA I made some simple oval slab plates again. Last Thursday 4 artists came out to Port Moody to spend the day painting said plates. It was really a lot of fun. Eric Metcalfe had again initiated the visit, bringing along previous guests, his ex-student Eli Bornowsky and Allyson Clay (Sally). The new guest was retired ECUAD…
The tight schedule for the last week seems to have paid off. A week ago I spent the day frantically applying terra sigillata to the bases of all my pots. With the plates painted by those artists on the previous Thursday there were 43 pieces to cook. On Monday I had my flu shot and then spent all afternoon unloading warm pots, waxing, glazing and…
The clocks went back last night, the sun is shining today, the Fall colours are perfect, the salmon are spawning in Noon's Creek and my bisque kiln turned itself off a couple of hours ago. It's been a busy week as I endeavoured to get all my jugbirds and other pots painted and, yesterday, terra sigged. The last few were fast-dried in my convection oven…