Post #641104 by danlovestikis on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 8:13 AM

Good morning friends.
Thank you hang10tiki like you McTiki is a friend. That makes it fun to add in his art to mine.

Yesterday morning another successful run of mugs cleaned up and stored.

The heavy molds were carried out to dry in the California sun around 10:30 am.

At 4:30 pm they were dry and brought back in and prepped for pouring. Everywhere I know there is a leak I fill it with sticky clay.

We filled four molds. On the shelf above are the Bob's being stored for the next Wish List.

Later when we went to pour out the excess slip I found that one of the molds had leaked out half of the slip. So I thought I would plug the opening and flip over the mold to let it sit so that the top half could catch up.

I flipped it over.

Horrors I had not plugged the top well enough and rest of the slip poured out. Oh well it could have worked.

Making ceramics is messy, very messy. The best part is that during the summer the water clean up is not freezing cold. Time for Brawny.

Now for the Spy/Tiki Oasis painting. The first thing I realized was the the light source needed to be reversed. So I can't copy his tiki I have to re-think all the light coming from the left. I've not fixed it well enough so what you see is just the start. Lighter paint on the left and darker on the right. Nothing here is finished.

The hands probably show the reverse lighting the best.

Next I added the chest, lips and nose.

Psycho Tiki D is coming here today to pick up some ceramic orders from the Wish List so I better get ready. There are Bob's waiting to be cleaned up too. We have a daily schedule to make this work.

Thanks for the visit, Wendy