Post #599670 by LavaLounger on Thu, Jul 28, 2011 1:51 PM

On 2011-07-24 07:28, danlovestikis wrote:
Hi Lavalounger, I because a tiki artist because my husband the tiki collector asked me over and over again to repair his "found" tiki treasures. He had even bought the sneaky tiki Harvey's mug with all the orange tiki paint moved the new places by a dishwasher. After searching for a long time I found the best product for these paint repairs. To buy it go to Google and type in Dick Blick. This is a paint supply business.

Then search for Liquitex glossies black.

You paint it on, let it dry for at least 24 hours and then bake it in your home oven at 325 degrees for 45 minutes.

Their red is an exact match for the skirts on the Islander surfing girl. So if you have other mugs to repair you could order some other colors as well. I use this paint on the hula girls that I've made for the swap put on by ZeroTiki if you want to see how well it works. It will be shinny and not dishwasher safe but it will make your mugs look better. To get the paint off your mug that you don't want use a razor blade, it won't hurt the mug but it will get off the paint you do not want.

Good luck, Wendy

Wendy-
Thank you so much for your help and tips. And you are right, the dishwasher "moved" the paint around. However I'd already gotten itchy and did some re-working before I logged back into T/C for the responses. And you are right, I used bake-on glass paints. I've done a lot of the glass painting on wine glasses and other fun stuff such as my 151 Rum dispenser (actually an oil bottle with spigot) and painted it with a volcano and I've painted glass lamp globes with jungle stuff and palm trees to cut down on tiki light bar glare.

Even so, I hesitated heating the mugs because of the decal so spent 3 days "candling" the mugs at 25-degree increments for 4 hours each to make sure they wouldn't break when heated, and practiced on ONE mug painting trim, it came out way too glossy so got a French glass paint product called "cloud" and added it to the black glass paint, did the other two, and it gave me a decent matte finish. Ok, they aren't as good as original, but passable. I didn't know I could scrape off the bad paint job on the blue one with a razor blade, is that before or after I bake it??

Thank you for helping Wendy, it's nice to know there are helpers out there during a tiki crisis!
Tiki Joy to All!
LavaLounger