Post #643628 by Whystler on Wed, Jul 11, 2012 2:07 PM

Hey all,

There was a time when I was heavily into clay art as a business. I hand built green man faces/masks, dragon and faerie sculptures, and the like for a local Renaissance Faire. But I never did experiment with slip casting. I really love the look of the slip cast mugs that various folks are designing. And, of course, I have a few questions - mostly about glazing.

Are you mug bottoms bare or glazed?

And if they are fully glazed, how do you achieve this ... stilts and pins? I found that using pins created slumping occasionally, which is not a good thing on a bottom that you need to be flat I suspect.

I have a nice faux celadon glaze recipe that we used to use ... and also a similar brown glaze. These colours seems to be compatable with the tiki style. If you have any advice about glazes, I would love to hear it.

Here is one of the greenmen I used to make with the celadon glaze over a buff speckle clay. Would this look good for a tiki mug do you think?

Are molds generally two part? Or are 4 part molds as easy to use?

Do you use a separate mold part for the bottom, or not?

I'm just gettin sum idee-ers. It's always good to hoard info for the future :)

-Whystler

[ Edited by: Whystler 2012-07-11 14:08 ]