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 Sat, Jun 23, 2012 8:58 AM Atomic Tiki Punk and Babalu thank you for checking up on my progress. It won't be long before I see you both at Oasis. Dan and I have been so fortunate to have made so many friends through tiki that it changed our lives. For most of our marriage we went to work and came home. We didn't go to parties or socialize. Tiki opened up the world for us and we have met the best people ever here and in our local tiki community. Thank you all for becoming friends that we treasure. Tiki Oasis 12 has a Spy theme this year so I decided to hold back one of my projects as a secret. Now that I'm working on paintings, that's slow work for me, I'm ready to share my secret with all of you to keep these pages from becoming boring. To start I will share the history that goes with these projects.Then over the next few days you'll see some ceramics I've made for Dan and what I will make available by way of the next Wish List. If you are familiar with my Gallery page and page one of this thread you will be familiar with the photos I'm going to share here. I feel the need to put them all together into a story. One that to this day gives me joy. Dan became a tiki collector after reading an issue of Otto's Tiki News. As he built his collection he would ask me to repair chips. Later that progressed to "I love this mug but they never made a bowl to match. Can you make one"? That started the ShouldHaveBeen series of bowls I made in Sculpey Clay. A great way to learn tiki sculpting. One of the first bowls I made for Dan was using the Frankoma Tiki mug design. No molds just hand built so you can see the difference between one tiki and the next. Traveling Jones who had lived in Oklahoma gave me the address for Jonice Frank of Frankoma Pottery. She was the original designer/sculptor for her father's company. She was the artist who did the Frankoma tiki line that we all love. The War God belonged to her. This is one of her original mugs. For fun I sent a photo of the bowl I'd made for Dan to Jonice. To my great delight she called me. A friendship developed that lasts to this day. As a gift she gave me the copy write to the Frankoma Tiki line. Since I was not a ceramisist I hooked up with Gecko to create the War God. I sculpted it and Gecko made molds and produced the mugs and banks. I was so thrilled to have this in production that we bought a whole bunch of them and kept Gecko busy. Next up came as a suggestion from Traveling Jones. He said why not make a Geckoma mug. One half the War God and one half Gecko'z trademarks. So I sculpted that and Gecko worked hard to make them into ceramics. Now I've got to get to work so the next part of this story will come tomorrow. Thank you for stopping by during your weekend. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-06-23 12:34 ]

Atomic Tiki Punk and Babalu thank you for checking up on my progress. It won't be long before I see you both at Oasis.

Dan and I have been so fortunate to have made so many friends through tiki that it changed our lives. For most of our marriage we went to work and came home. We didn't go to parties or socialize. Tiki opened up the world for us and we have met the best people ever here and in our local tiki community. Thank you all for becoming friends that we treasure.

Tiki Oasis 12 has a Spy theme this year so I decided to hold back one of my projects as a secret. Now that I'm working on paintings, that's slow work for me, I'm ready to share my secret with all of you to keep these pages from becoming boring.

To start I will share the history that goes with these projects.Then over the next few days you'll see some ceramics I've made for Dan and what I will make available by way of the next Wish List.

If you are familiar with my Gallery page and page one of this thread you will be familiar with the photos I'm going to share here. I feel the need to put them all together into a story. One that to this day gives me joy.

Dan became a tiki collector after reading an issue of Otto's Tiki News. As he built his collection he would ask me to repair chips. Later that progressed to "I love this mug but they never made a bowl to match. Can you make one"?

That started the ShouldHaveBeen series of bowls I made in Sculpey Clay. A great way to learn tiki sculpting.

One of the first bowls I made for Dan was using the Frankoma Tiki mug design.

No molds just hand built so you can see the difference between one tiki and the next.

Traveling Jones who had lived in Oklahoma gave me the address for Jonice Frank of Frankoma Pottery. She was the original designer/sculptor for her father's company. She was the artist who did the Frankoma tiki line that we all love. The War God belonged to her. This is one of her original mugs.

For fun I sent a photo of the bowl I'd made for Dan to Jonice. To my great delight she called me. A friendship developed that lasts to this day. As a gift she gave me the copy write to the Frankoma Tiki line.

Since I was not a ceramisist I hooked up with Gecko to create the War God. I sculpted it and Gecko made molds and produced the mugs and banks.

I was so thrilled to have this in production that we bought a whole bunch of them and kept Gecko busy.

Next up came as a suggestion from Traveling Jones. He said why not make a Geckoma mug. One half the War God and one half Gecko'z trademarks. So I sculpted that and Gecko worked hard to make them into ceramics.

Now I've got to get to work so the next part of this story will come tomorrow. Thank you for stopping by during your weekend. Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-06-23 12:34 ]

Post #641440 by danlovestikis on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 8:58 AM