Suddenly I'm busy, busy! It's amazing what deadlines will encourage. The airport wants their order right now and as many jugbirds as I have on hand. On Tuesday I had 10 completed but unpainted. On Wednesday the first of two 'Painting Raids' took place, when 3 of a planned 8 artists painted my oval plates for a Western Front fund-raiser in March. That evening…
When I got home from Abbotsford today Al had started to photograph yesterday's hot new pots. These are the plates painted at the latest Painting Raid. Monique Fouquet painted a platter with transparent ovals on grey. Renée van Halm painted four plates with bold versions of her collages. And Eric Metcalfe painted his designs with red and black on…
Yesterday I finished spraying the last of my stoneware pieces with slips for salt, loaded the bisque kiln and turned it on. Then I made sure I had plates ready and underglazes topped up for three artists coming to paint again today. Eric Metcalfe brought Monique Fouquet and Renée van Halm this time. Monique brought a home-made quiche, chocolate cake and an…
On Friday I opened the most recent glaze firing. The top shelf held my newest work for delivery to YVR Airport Crafthouse and my latest creation, the Blue-footed Booby Jug. All the other shelves contained the work of the artists who spent a day here recently. Alan took nice photos of each plate so that I can show here the astonishing variety of effects they…
After I'd put together the previous blog Al forwarded the photos he took of our guests. His digital SLR camera really does take much better interior photos. Here they are.