To the Members of the BC Potters Guild.

I would like to take this opponunity te
thank the Potters Guild of BC for support
Ing my request to attend Paul Scott's Ce-
ramics and Graphics course at Red Deer
College this summer, The Potters Guild
Scholarship gave me the resources | needled
bo attend the course and it was well worth
every dollar. As Maggi Kneer has already
mentioned in a past newsleller, the counie
was exceptional in many ways. Having
Iwo weeks away from everyday life, an
expenciced and knowledgeable instruc-
tor and an eclectic group of colleagues
sharing
) the studio,
all created
a perfect
fF environ-
meni for

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Thanks to the Guild

Paul began by introducing a series of low
tech processes that are all described in his
book, Ceramics and Print, and can be
utilized without a great deal of expense
He covered two or three processes each
day and by the end of the

drawing tocoverit. Aslabofclay was then
Maced over top of the ship and rolled with
a braver (0 press the slab to the slip layers
underneath. After awhile, when the clay
was near leather hard, the slab of clay was
peeled from the plaster

first week, we were totally
overloaded with tech-
niques and ideas. Every
one walched and talked
together while we worked,

andthe coloured drawing
appears embedded in the
slab.

| have been ex periment-

and thes helped spur us on
to experiment further and
share ideas,

The PROCESS 1 enpoyed (ee prices wis ila
Ing into a plaster slab to create a small
carved image. Then the carved lines were
filled wath slip coloured with powdered
slain. The excess slip was scraped away
with the edge of a credit card to show the
crisp lines. Next the spaces of the drawing
were painted in with coloured slips until
ihe entire image was filled with colour.
White sip was poured over the entire

Marilyn Magic rect: f

ing wilh this technique and
am enjoving the fact that
ithastaken my work in an
eniirely new direction. |
have attached a photo showing examples
of my most recent pieces

Thank you azain to the Potters Guild se-
lection committee for the generous sup
port in providing me with such o valuable
learning expenence

Yours sincerely,

Martin (Molly) Magid

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