Post #633039 by swizzle on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 1:20 AM

Thanks VampiressRN.

Cheers Beachbumz. Yeah, i'm liking the spraygun. A few more sprayed mugs below with a something new i learnt exactly as you say.

Here's a few more mugs i picked up this week. This first mug is for a guy i met last year who runs a website called Refined Vices and he said he'd be interested in one of my mugs and would like it in black. When i got this mug back there was a tiny bit on the tip of the nose where the glaze must have rubbed off in the box whilst i was transporting it so i painted some enamel over and now you can't even tell.

Black and my mixed purple.

With this mug i tried something different i hadn't tried before and i'm very happy with the result. I bought a wire brush and brushed over the greenware to give it this rough bark-like effect.

A bit of Chocolate and Rockingham Brown mixed together with Turquoise interior.

Detail.

Next is something new i tried that i have added to several mugs since i really like it. On page 4 there is a skull i made out of clay that i gave to a friend who cast some in resin for me. I decided to make a mold using the resin casting and added the skull to the back of some mugs.

Here's a pic of the castings he made.

And here's the mug with skull added. I'm calling these mugs General Ra Ra with a Tumour.:D

Same brown as above with Oyster Speckle White interior. (The skull was glazed in white also.)

This mug also has a skull and like the Refined Vices mug was glazed using the spray gun, the two brown mugs were painted by brush. There are a couple spots on both black mugs where the coat of glaze was not thick enough so close up you can just see through it. It's in his nostrils and just under the mouth and also along the top edge where this happened. I learnt from these mugs where to go over them with the next lot i spray to make sure i get better coverage. I think i also learnt that by spraying, even if a particular area ends up with a thicker coat of glaze i don't think it is going to actually get darker there. It will blend in with rest. Well at least that's what i think will happen.

Black and turquoise with a tumour.

And last is a mug i had a go at carving a Moko on. I painted black glaze into the carved sections and then wiped it off. It was then sprayed. I used the Rockingham Brown glaze but watered it down so it wouldn't clog up the spraygun. I was quite surprised to see the colour it ended up being although i must say really like the outcome.

Rockingham Brown and Oyster White again.

That's it for the moment.
Cheers,
swizzle