VanTiki Mugs: Octopus Time Lapse - Other Crafts

V VanTiki Member Hawaii Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 1046	V VanTiki Posted posted on Tue, Feb 19, 2008 2:36 PM On 2008-02-18 14:23, Paipo wrote: Just maybe your best yet! I'll reserve final judgement until he's all glazed and fired though. Looks like there should be something in the mouth (a matching pendant perhaps) hanging on the tongue for our intrepid archaeologist to purloin? Aww... Shucks. You guys are the best! So glad everyone is stoked about the new mug. Paipo - I totally agree with you on the item in the mouth thing. I was going to do a small skull mug that fits into the mouth (after a sketch I did last week), but I started sculpting that night with the goal of doing "a simple mug" that I would later expand on with a removable skull-in-mouth mug - ha! Didn't work out as planned. In the end, I almost wish I made a little stone throne in the mouth - I love the idea that this was an ancient lighthouse - perhaps an evil beacon to drag european ships on the reefs to be pillaged (and keep VanTiki Island's location secret). The throne would be for the lookout to sit in. Anyway - you can see I spend way too much time thinking of backstories to the mugs :) As far as glazing goes - I am (as usual) totally freaked out. I've Got Cannibal Idol #1 bisque-firing in the kiln right now along with 5 textured glaze test tiles. I'll play around with glaze options on the test tiles before I move on to mucking up a big mug. I've never used any of these clays before so I am really curious how they will turn out. again, Mahalo! Henrik

On 2008-02-18 14:23, Paipo wrote:
Just maybe your best yet! I'll reserve final judgement until he's all glazed and fired though. Looks like there should be something in the mouth (a matching pendant perhaps) hanging on the tongue for our intrepid archaeologist to purloin?

Aww... Shucks. You guys are the best! So glad everyone is stoked about the new mug. Paipo - I totally agree with you on the item in the mouth thing. I was going to do a small skull mug that fits into the mouth (after a sketch I did last week), but I started sculpting that night with the goal of doing "a simple mug" that I would later expand on with a removable skull-in-mouth mug - ha! Didn't work out as planned. In the end, I almost wish I made a little stone throne in the mouth - I love the idea that this was an ancient lighthouse - perhaps an evil beacon to drag european ships on the reefs to be pillaged (and keep VanTiki Island's location secret). The throne would be for the lookout to sit in. Anyway - you can see I spend way too much time thinking of backstories to the mugs :)

As far as glazing goes - I am (as usual) totally freaked out. I've Got Cannibal Idol #1 bisque-firing in the kiln right now along with 5 textured glaze test tiles. I'll play around with glaze options on the test tiles before I move on to mucking up a big mug. I've never used any of these clays before so I am really curious how they will turn out.

again, Mahalo!
Henrik

Post #362205 by VanTiki on Tue, Feb 19, 2008 2:36 PM