Post #645359 by danlovestikis on Tue, Jul 24, 2012 8:10 AM

Thank you hang10tiki, Kele, LoriLovesTiki for your kind words they are appreciated.

tigertail777777777777 yours too. As far as detail goes it's hard to do that with the same clay that I'm baking. Sculptors clay is best for detail. The face of the woman on the Hawaiian Hut mug is the size of the fingernail on the smallest finger. I'll be hand painting the detail onto each face. You may send a photo of the ink well tiki and I'll comment on what I think about it.

Progress Report:

Horrors the dreaded Glug Glug happened to one of the War God mugs.

The first indicator was excessive weight and the caved in top.

It was my fault I usually check inside each mug with a flash light after we dump the excess slip out. Every so often it needs help with a stick to get it to move. I forgot and of course it happened. Here I have trimmed off the entrance clay and smoothed the bottom.

I like to rescue my mistakes and make something with them. I cut open the back.

I used a melon scoop to clean out the goopy clay.

I opened up the head wider and put some of the goop alone the edges and pressed it onto one of my blank mug casts.

It is all very soft. I added some clay along the side, I'll add more as it firms up.

Here is how it looks along the side of a regular cast. I think I'm glad it happened.

These are drying for the next bisque firing.

This many are sanded and already in the kiln waiting for the rest.

Today we sand and wash those already bisque fired. Then tomorrow I'll start to glaze. It is always so fun to get to this part.

Thank you everyone for stopping by, you make it worthwhile to post. Sincerely, Wendy and Dan