Nice Jugs

My glazed jugs have just come out of the klin.I'm pleased with them

home alone

Unusually i'm alone in the house tonight. Only my two evil kittens and Hero the silly dog for company, board, I made a pot and somehow the 2 kittens and dog ended up in it. just come back from 5 days going up river in my boat. I did apainting at dawn each morning, except the last when I was a bit hungover

Back to ceramics

Somebody has kindly given me use of their studio so I have made ,bisque fired and underglazed two jugs. I wiil probably glave them when I can work out how to do it. Can they be glazed on the same1000c program i used to bisque fire them? I painted another picture of my poor old dog, Chip

poor old chip

Havent done my blog for a month but i am painting as a break from the ceramics . the first is my poor old dog she lies in the sun and looks as if she is fading into the clay she came from the rest are painted around my garden,limerick city and on my hols in france as an exercise they are all done with 3 colours , cyan ,magnenta and process yellow (and white)

Painting en plein air

Today I went to the University of Limerick campus with Jim Furlong and Frank Rafter to paint out doors. The weather forcast promised sun between 10 and 2 and sure enough the rain started as we were leaving. We all enjoyed it and learned something. I painted Frank and Jim painting,echos of Monet and Manet at Argenteuil I've used process colours, cyan,magnenta and yellow in the past few days. The unmixed colours look nasty but they mix beautifully predictable and don't get mucky. These paintings are done with just 3 colours We also had a look the national self portrait collection in the foundation building. it was excellent, anyone want my self portrait!!

cafe de Laurierboom3

I decided to finish it this evening

cafe de Laurierboom 2

Worked the sketch up into a painting. That's it for today may do a bit more tomorro.