It's Monday afternoon in a July heatwave and the work from last Friday's Raid is already bisque fired. I'll be able to take all the plates out of the kiln tomorrow morning and make a start on the glazing. My five visitors were rather productive so the pieces have completely filled the kiln. With stilts for glazed bottoms, I doubt whether everything will get in…
Five artists were here the week before last and that's about enough people to work around my table so on Friday another three Raiders arrived for a day of painting. While I had been potting and glazing during the week I managed to prepare some more plates for this group. Luckily for me, potter Robert Shiozaki teaches at Totally Ceramics and at Port Moody Arts…
On the first day of August Eric Metcalfe, Renée Van Halm and first-time Raider, Pierre Coupey showed up for a day of plate-painting. As I glazed their work today, I realized that was over two weeks ago. In the meantime Al and I spent an eventful nine days over on Vancouver Island. It was good to have two seasoned plate painters here on Pierre's…
Once again some Vancouver artists drove out to Port Moody to spend a day painting plates. Yesterday's 'Raiders' were Eric Metcalfe, Mina Totino and first-time-visitor Elizabeth Zvonar. All three jumped right in to work, Eric carefully drawing and then painting two more plates in his new series of 'Dazzle' images, Mina painting right away on three of the rimless coupe plates and later, a larger oval…