Post #524448 by MadDogMike on Fri, Apr 16, 2010 9:15 PM

Alrighty, I've been keeping busy :)

My "Guardians of the Flame" table is progressing along - the commercial tiles are cut and ready to receive the custom tiki tiles. But the San Diego clay shop didn't have my kiln replacement part so everything remains unfired for now.

I got a blank hourglass mug from Babalu a while back and carved it with Maori imagery, Babalu graciously fired it for me 'cuz it's too tall to fit into my little kiln :) I wanted to achieve a greenstone-like glaze with natural variations: I streaked and splattered it with blue-green underglaze and then used a purposely uneven transparent green over that. The result is that it looks like a 3rd grader glazed it :lol:

I was inspired by Murph's Kraken Bottle Lamp I found an old bottle, cut the bottom off with a wet tile saw, and decided "why not make a diorama lamp?" So I'm working with polymer clay to make a Moai and Mermaid scene; maybe it will be entitled "Forbidden Love". Still a long ways to go.