Post #601276 by swizzle on Sat, Aug 6, 2011 11:13 PM

Thanks Wendy, i hope i dont have any more cracked mugs either. It's quite annoying.

Fortunately the following mugs didn't crack. This first mug i've sold to the guy who will be doing the resin castings of the skull and the moai gear stick shifter i made which you can see on page 4. He wanted a dark purple with black on the inside. The glazing is a little patchy but the colour is nice. My local ceramic supplier doesn't have a brush on purple so i just bought a blue and red and mixed them together. I might add a touch of white to it next time. The black on the inside is also a little uneven up near the top. This mug was the first mug i poured glaze into which i mixed myself. I bought a clear glaze powder to which i added a black stain and water. As it is thinner than the brush on glazes it poured out a lot faster and it didn't cover as evenly. It taught me something new for the next mug i glaze.

These next two mugs will be gifts to the owners of our only Tiki bar here in Melbourne. Her favourite colour is purple and his is green, so i figured that i would glaze the inside of her mug green and his purple. I also thought it appropriate that she gets the smaller mug as she is a petite little thing herself. Same purple as above and lime green. I really liked the apple green mug i made a couple of weeks ago, but this lime is much nicer.

I do have another mug to post pics of but that will have to wait until it arrives at its new owners. I don't want to spoil the surprise. :)