Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 10:45 AM Hi Friends. WestADad I'm so glad that the Bumatay has passed muster. I'm super excited about the new lamp, thank you. ZeroTiki it is so good to hear from you, keep it coming. Professor G just think of all those "male" tikis out there, this has been overdue. No blushing here but its a compliment that I did her well enough to affect you. Little Lost Tiki, always a pleasure to read what you write. I spent a long time on your thread last night ogling and reading your stories and descriptions. Thank you all so very much, Wendy Just a few photos. Just to remind new ceramicists. If the pour hole is small use a gas siphon to remove most of the slip. Use a flashlight to watch the opening while another person tips the mold. Make sure the opening never closes. Air needs to go in or the glug glug factor will suck in the sides and collapse your cast. Only when it's all out does the mold completely turn upside down and go on the 2 x 4's to dry out. I now have made a second sea horse, the male. I have not yet decided on the texture. Today I'll work on the sea turtle. I used the first seahorse as a template. This worked well because I wanted the male a little larger. I used a huge knife to cut off the excess. All done. This time I started with a thicker clay block so instead of using scraps to build my ridges I was able to carve away clay to make them. I did add clay to make the face and eye. Fins are started. All done except for texture. I took apart one of the molds today and found the mug too soft to lift out of the last piece. Winter cold is making it really hard to dry out both the molds and the casts. I'm using a fan non-stop but I'll have to spread the days apart further. I've left the second mug to dry out the rest of the day. I even have the fan on the molds when they are strapped together so that the outter dryness will pull water from the inside. I could put the pieces in a box with a light bulb to heat them so they'll dry faster but today we spend with mom so there's no time to improvise. Tomorrow is another day. Gotta go. Cheers, Wendy

Hi Friends.

WestADad I'm so glad that the Bumatay has passed muster. I'm super excited about the new lamp, thank you.
ZeroTiki it is so good to hear from you, keep it coming.
Professor G just think of all those "male" tikis out there, this has been overdue. No blushing here but its a compliment that I did her well enough to affect you.
Little Lost Tiki, always a pleasure to read what you write. I spent a long time on your thread last night ogling and reading your stories and descriptions.

Thank you all so very much, Wendy

Just a few photos.
Just to remind new ceramicists. If the pour hole is small use a gas siphon to remove most of the slip.

Use a flashlight to watch the opening while another person tips the mold.

Make sure the opening never closes. Air needs to go in or the glug glug factor will suck in the sides and collapse your cast.

Only when it's all out does the mold completely turn upside down and go on the
2 x 4's to dry out.

I now have made a second sea horse, the male. I have not yet decided on the texture. Today I'll work on the sea turtle.

I used the first seahorse as a template.

This worked well because I wanted the male a little larger.

I used a huge knife to cut off the excess.

All done.

This time I started with a thicker clay block so instead of using scraps to build my ridges I was able to carve away clay to make them.

I did add clay to make the face and eye.

Fins are started.

All done except for texture.

I took apart one of the molds today and found the mug too soft to lift out of the last piece. Winter cold is making it really hard to dry out both the molds and the casts. I'm using a fan non-stop but I'll have to spread the days apart further. I've left the second mug to dry out the rest of the day. I even have the fan on the molds when they are strapped together so that the outter dryness will pull water from the inside.

I could put the pieces in a box with a light bulb to heat them so they'll dry faster but today we spend with mom so there's no time to improvise. Tomorrow is another day. Gotta go. Cheers, Wendy

Post #621405 by danlovestikis on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 10:45 AM