Not much happening in the studio this time of year, but There was this nice little sign for a vineyard in San Mateo, California.

I've been woking hard lately getting ready for the annual sale at my studio.  It will be odd this year not having Gay Jensen's fiber work with me for the first time in 31 years.  

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.