Post #637867 by danlovestikis on Fri, May 25, 2012 9:57 AM

mymotiki everything you wrote shows me that posting every morning is so worth it. Thank you for your words and for all the orders. This next load will have your bowl re-glazing. Your Missionary's Downfall Alter is in the works.

Queen Kamehameha you have a heart of gold. One day we would like to see your tree house. Thank you for your compliments I appreciate them.

Kele I'll announce another Wish List when I have all of these done. I like the Zombie Torch palm trees and I'm so happy that Professor G got me to put them on Bob's.

ZeroTiki Wowzer's is a new word for my art and I love it. Hugs at Oasis coming your way.

Wish List Progress Report:

I worked on glazing all day and sculpting all evening. I got a lot done. Remember that glazes drastically change in the kiln. The dog spots will become black once fired and the TapaTurtleBob will be green.

Three layers of white and black on the Bob faces but for MurphDog it was over his whole body. I will still add two layers of clear on top of that today.

First off I filled shook and poured out glaze from the interior of each mug.

They sat upside down to drain and then I wiped off the top or added to it depending on what I wanted the top color to be.

I spread out all the MurphDog photos and started on him.

I can't match the spots on this guy but I can make the mug resemble him. All these spots will be hopefully be black when fired.

Here you can see the difference between unpainted bisque and the whites of Bob's faces. MurphDogs collar will be cold painted with pirate dogs and bones when he is done.

I paint mugs upside down and then right side up for two reasons. One I don't want glaze to drip on the face and two with all the super deep carving I need to make sure I got glaze everywhere. Changing angles helps spot missed areas.

David, I did different numbers of layers on this mug so that the green would be lighter or darker in different areas.

LoriLovesTiki has Caribbean Blue on the Big Bob. I will put the spotted purple on the little Bob if I don't hear back by noon today with a change.

dartharnies Frankenstein's Bob is being rubbed with black glaze.

I let him dry overnight and today I'll rub most of it back off leaving it in the stitches.

BaconSM Pac Man Bob. If you have one of my Bob's you know they are heavy and thick. I do that so I can carve deeply to fill wishes on the list. Here I have dug out the mouth so it may hold a white ball.

I built out the mouth to resemble the picture supplied by . He made an entire map for me.

I started caving the lines. I decided that it would be better to carve out the black background than to add the lines and dots and little critters.

Front view with Pac Man eyes.

Mapping it out shows that even with the terrific map I got off. The maze will still be BaconSM just not perfect.

I've drawn in all the dots etc. and tonight I'll carve out the rest of the clay and then smooth it all.

More glazing today. I hope to finish these four Bobs so I can fire tonight or in the morning.

BaconSM Tiki your creature is next up as soon as Pac Man is finished.

Thank you for the visit and notes. Cheers, Wendy