Post #612684 by umeone on Fri, Nov 4, 2011 6:48 AM

Aloha,

John, I've been trying to find a match glaze for the Hoffman pieces. This one is close but, not close enough. My B-Day is 2 days before the Ides of March.

Tigertail, I did have a piece blow up in the kiln, a very costly experience. I worked on a Mermaid laying upon a cliff, large piece with lots of detail, my Dad wanted me to make a bronze out of it, which of course I had no idea how that process goes. Anyway, this was about 12 years ago, I found a place that would fire her but, she blew up! The only thing left was the end of her tail. So that kinda ended my sculpting for about 10 years. Now I feel like I'm on fire, I love it and can't get the pieces in my head brought to reality fast enough! I've switched to cone 5 clay maybe for that reason, I can go a little thicker in some places and so far have had good luck. That being said I hope I haven't jinxed myself. :) I do hold my breath and pray till they get through the bisque fire. I always try to dig out the thicker parts and make sure to have a blow hole, like the belly button, a mouth or underneath Santa's Sarong! :lol:

On to yesterday, there was a very creepy post on my thread that kept me off of here till Craig got home, when he went to check it for me, it was thankfully gone. Can anybody tell me what that was all about. Just curious.

Anyway I did another Coco~Loco Island about twice as big and more attention to detail. I didn't take during pictures because of the post freaking me out. Here is the final piece although I do see some places where I could do a little more tweaking!

Thanks for stopping by and for all your supportive comments, except for creepy guy! :lol:

Mahalo Y'all,
Linda