Post #348435 by Cammo on Sat, Dec 8, 2007 12:38 PM

Here's the update on the Oki Doki 'Gold Run' -

Despite enormous fires, torrential rains, and this morning's hail (!) I've managed to glaze and fire the last Oki Doki mugs. These all have 2-3 layers of different transparent glazes, and many have white eyes & mouth. They're a huge amount of work, but I want these to be really nice. I don't know if anybody has ever mixed glazes the way I'm doing it, but you sure get bizarre results!

I'll only have one or two of each. No idea on pricing, but I'll try to keep it down.

These are not glazed with gold details yet, but will be doing the gold firing on the 15th of December. The gold is really hard to work with, it's like painting engine oil onto glass. I'm using these tiny little #2 brushes, and will gold out the eye rims and pupil details, and the lettering. I've only done one in gold so far and it sold in about 3 minutes at Cindy's Bamboo Source shop.

Here's ze gang - the Chinese guys at the bottom are for scale. Each Chinese guy is 5' 6" tall.

The ones in front are tobacco brown & red, and green/turquise in the middle. Back row is cinnamon, red, and deep green.

When I do the gold glaze, I'll do a different design on each and name them all. You'll see.

Laytah,
and everybody have a very nice holiday!