Wind Stopped Play

We were supposed to be having a raku firing last Friday morning as part of the Angels and Acrobats course. The weather was not playing. I've done raku sessions in the rain, and I've heard of firings being done in the snow, but wind is a show stopper. On Friday morning it was gusting up to 24 miles an hour. We had to cancel the firing. To speed things up for this week, we glazed some test pieces. Hopefully, this Friday will be better, although it means we still have a two hour firing to fit in somewhere.

Typically, the next day dawned warm, sunny and hardly a breath of wind. We made the most of the bank holiday, getting out every day. We explored a few of the nearby interesting places, like Kirkstall Abbey and Temple Newsam, and did some walking in the local bluebell woods. And I even got some sketching done.

Here a few recent sketches...

A Conversation in Costa Coffee

John has a dinghy up at Doe Park Reservoir in Denholme. He needed to change the wheels on the trolley, so I did some sketching while he was working.

In the Boatyard at Doe Park

John Reading

Yet Another Day in Costa

In The Fighting Cock

At Kirkstall Abbey

In the Teashop at Temple Newsam

Temple Newsam From the Avenue

I'm hoping to put up some of my photos from Iceland in my next post.