stirling fine art exhibition opening..

what fun we had..! it's the first year rose and i have been invited to exhibit and i was a little unsure about how the show would go, it runs this weekend only and we're hoping for good results..

the sculpture garden was great but my little wall sculpture got lost on an outside wall, rose intervened with the 'crap display' as she so frankly termed it and hopefully this will be rectified today, at least that what was discussed last night..

anyhoo it was a great night and a late one for me these days!!
need more practise obviously!! enjoy the slideshow..

screensavers moving pictures...

screensavers...

what a brilliant afternoon we had printing today, simone came out to the workshop to start our printing sessions....we had a fab time chatting about her work and processes then getting some hands on print time in our lovely warm shed space... thanks simone it was super and we all had a great time... and even with the ac on it was a tad warm in there today and i was slightly vagued from the run this morning..

with last minute alterations to the course by the city council i clocked it at just over 11km not the 10k course we were supposed to be doing and yeh for cloud cover the sun was pretty hot by 9.30 his morning when i finished... there was some confusion with course markers not set out and quite a few
ended up on a short course, i'm not rubbing it in, it was all muddle really...

this week i'll hopefully get some of our own screens made up and next sunday we can do a follow up now that we have some idea of which type of images will reproduce well..i'll put some video together tomorrow, im off to snooze now after a very early start this morning, cheers all..

table number 2...

the clean up begins .... the tile cut outs were completed last wednesday after a marathon 10 hour stint, i was determined to get them all cut last week and now comes the next phase
of sorting any warped ones cleaning up the edges identifying the tiles and numbering them all... they then go back into the stack for finishing the drying stage and being a warm week quite a few have dried too quickly and warped...

here's how i keep track of the little critters... each section has a list of cut tiles, when i flip them i keep track of moving them about and when cleaning and numbering they get re tagged on the backs....fairly soon comes the deco and i'll be watching the weather for a cool day to deco then restack until the bisque firing..

must get some vid of this project too, i'd like to document it as its now quite a special project for john who passed a way 12 months ago now, and his family is looking forward to it's completion... it also has a lot of personal stuff attached for myself, i'd like to give it a good finishing touch with a mini vid..

tis the season for placky...

here we go a 'lil frydee action'.... works all done for the week and friday is clayday woohoo....

a tad warm but the trustee blower i my studio is still doing the job nicely.. no a/c yet, maybe in the future or i could just take those sweltering weeks of summer off it makes sense really...

so i went with the intention of ripping out some cups today, weighing out 12 oz.... what was i thinking? ok for mugs... so i did a few then cut all of the balls of clay down to 8oz.. that's better..

after enough of those i whipped up a few plates for sunday's print workshop at the club, between jess and myself we should be able to capture the event on vid.. its our last 30 yr celebration workshop at the club for the year, it's been a good one...
the teams all rearranged now with new committee members and a few of us taking a rest from what seems to be never ending stuff to sort out.. good luck for next year guys..

and for this evening i went down to the club to get cleaning up on the 2nd table tile project...full steam ahead for christmas deadline..