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Well - I am back from Old Songs. I had an amazing time. Caught up with old friends - and made some new. Heard some amazing sea chanties at the song session Sunday night - and listened for a while to the French-Canadian fiddle session with my friend from Ottawa James Stephens.
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After a cold and wet spring summer is suddenly upon us. In the past I would have been already on the road - but these days my schedule is greatly reduced. Not by choice! I miss my summers on the road, camping at beautiful state parks between shows. I thrived on the extremes - extreme solitude in nature and extreme socializing at festivals! But ( Read more... ) -
Hammering
Well. As I mentioned in my last post, I was committed to making a bowl a week. Well it's been a week and I've made four bowls ;-) Hammering is really addictive! It's so amazing to feel the bowl taking shape under your hand. I am excited this week because I have also designed some feet for the bowls that I will etch and enamel in champleve technique
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Hammered
It's not everyone who has a conversation with a friend including the sentence: "I found one. I dragged it to the park and hid it in the bushes. You can come and see if it's what you want. but you should probably come at night". Sounds like the beginning of a thriller - and in a way it is. It's pretty exciting to me anyway ( Read more... ) -
Dream
I wanted to use this blog to document some of the processes that I deal with in enamelling, and I have often set up the camera to take shots of the pieces as they go along. Te purpose of this is to let people in to some of the mysteries of making. It is never easy to communicate a complicated process like enamelling, but I hope I can elucidate it a ( Read more... )
