August kiln load On the last day of August I was finally able to unload glazed pots from the kiln. The plates painted by 'The Raiders' the other day helped to fill it, along with the dozen jugbirds I'd made and stored damp since May! Covid and holiday travels kept me from the studio.I'll post photos of plates painted by my guests first, and below…
Yesterday was the day we finally hosted another 'Raid'. Vancouver artists used to 'raid' my studio several times a year, before Covid, but last year we had just one gathering in September. Now we decided that Eric's 82nd birthday would be a perfect day to get together again. The weather forecast was for a slightly cooler day, so we felt that if we worked with…
Three 'raiders' were here yesterday. This time Eric was joined by Renée Van Halm and Monique Fouquet. Alan was over in Victoria to be the External Examiner at a thesis defence at UVic so there were just four of us to have lunch together here. While I worked on getting a couple of jugbirds painted with my usual slips Eric painted his oval plates with underglazes. I had…