Just recently I had another group of artists here to paint plates. The plan is to get eight artists to paint several plates and donate one each for the upcoming Western Front fundraiser. Eric, Monique and Katie had already painted theirs in January so on this day my visitors were Sally Clay, Renée van Halm, Eli Bornowsky and Katie again. Paul Mathieu couldn't come so…
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.
Eric Metcalfe (whose birthday it was today!) invited Sally (Alison) Clay, Renee Van Halm (her first visit out here), Eli Bornowsky and Paul Mathieu to join him for another 'painting raid'. Forewarned, I slab-rolled lots of oval plates and platters, applied background slips and allowed them to become bone dry. I now have a good selection of jars of underglazes for my guests to use.…