Here's a new pice, just out of the kiln yesterday, that went home today.  It's a map of Whidbey Island, for a shower wall up there.  It's 5' x 7' on 12" x 24" tiles.  It's got a lot of fun images on it: the North and South Poles, Bunnies around Langley, New York and Florida way off to the east, and a kraken eating the Victoria Clipper.

I just got back from a week in front of a video camera in Mississippi.  I was filming an online china painting course for TeachinArt.com, a new online school run by Antoinette and Koos Badenhorst. 

I'm off to Mississippi to record an online china painting class on Friday.  On Saturday I'll be doing a demo there before we start filming.  Anybody who's in the area is welcome to drop by.  Here's the announcement they've put together.

I haven't been in the studio much lately.  I've been out doing what I refer to as image harvesting.  I did a three-day backpack trip, two nights at Paradise Inn on Mt. Rainier (thanks for the birthday present, Ruth!) and a four-day canoe trip on Ross Lake in the North Cascades.  

Last weekend I did the Bellevue Arts Museum Artsfair for the second time with paintings.  Last time was two years ago.  I used to do that fair every year back when I was a potter and on into when I switched to tiles, from the mid-70s through the mid-90s.  It was a huge success, the best fair I've had in many years.  

Here's a fun photo that we took when we were shooting the Coyote walk-in shower that's on the Bathrooms page.