Friday's kiln opening revealed fifteen new jug birds and the five plates painted earlier by Eric, Sally and Katie. Most of my birds are the completion of the YVR Crafthouse order, so I'll take twelve out to the airport tomorrow. But I am happy to study my three new designs, a magpie, a kingfisher and a gannet. Here are photos of them and the…
https://picasaweb.google.com/112208740085943894765/EarthenwareJuly2013 My glaze firing this week was only a partial load because its bisque had also included the remainder of my stoneware pieces for the salt firing. But I needed to get the jugbirds ordered at ArtWalk finished. As usual Alan has photographed them for me, using our smart light box out in my kiln shed. It does make the work look so much better!…
Today's blog includes notes on pots, the garden and a reminder to TriCity potters to bring a pot for 'Show and Tell'. Here it is half-way through June and I'm finding myself often distracted and not getting to my studio. The garden is growing apace, with glorious flowers and less-glorious weeds competing for my attention. The delphiniums are, as usual, astonishingly blue. For our…
Alan travelled up to Whistler last Wednesday with the Carlsons to attend the Canadian Archaeology Association's annual conference. I drove up to join him on Friday. More about Whistler soon. But on the two days of lovely Spring sunshine here I actually spent lots of time in my studio, preparing plates for another plate-painting 'raid' yesterday and assembling two largish new birds. I…
We were lucky with the weather for ArtWalk! On Friday the heavens opened and I thought that all the outdoor events would be spoiled and people would be discouraged from walking. Saturday was merely cloudy and rather cold and I think that there were more events happening down on Queens street so my studio was relatively quiet. But Sunday was a lovely sunny Spring day…