MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - El Tiki/Ben Wilson Wall Finished - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11036	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Sat, Jul 28, 2012 4:09 PM Friends, thank you so much for all of your kind comments, I am looking forward to seeing many of you at Oasis in a few weeks! Bryan's birthday was a few days ago so the Kamehameha bowl has special meaning - he would have been 51. It is ready to be fired for the first time, hopefully sometime this week. You can put underglazes on greenware before it is bisque fired and I have done that in some areas. BUT the bowl is very fragile in it's unfired state and it's risky to handle it much, so I'll finish glazing after I fire. That means at least 3 firings which would be no big deal if I were firing at home, but is going to slow things down when I am at the mercy of someone else's firing schedule. I ordered some Ferric Chloride today for the saggar firing and thought about a design that would look good saggar fired. I decided on a quasi-tiki design - something not really tiki but found in a specific area of many tiki restaurants. Somebody has voted me to the top of "Cool and Current" so I thought I should do something to be worthy of that honor. I don't really sell many things - I make them for my own entertainment and don't like the pressure that comes with selling, so I often give them away. If this saggar fired mug works out, I will give it to the first person who can identify what it will be AND post a picture of that item :D If it is too easy, it's just a matter being in the right place at the right time. You may recognize it as being the form I used to create my golden Olmec head.

Friends, thank you so much for all of your kind comments, I am looking forward to seeing many of you at Oasis in a few weeks!

Bryan's birthday was a few days ago so the Kamehameha bowl has special meaning - he would have been 51. It is ready to be fired for the first time, hopefully sometime this week. You can put underglazes on greenware before it is bisque fired and I have done that in some areas. BUT the bowl is very fragile in it's unfired state and it's risky to handle it much, so I'll finish glazing after I fire. That means at least 3 firings which would be no big deal if I were firing at home, but is going to slow things down when I am at the mercy of someone else's firing schedule.

I ordered some Ferric Chloride today for the saggar firing and thought about a design that would look good saggar fired. I decided on a quasi-tiki design - something not really tiki but found in a specific area of many tiki restaurants. Somebody has voted me to the top of "Cool and Current" so I thought I should do something to be worthy of that honor. I don't really sell many things - I make them for my own entertainment and don't like the pressure that comes with selling, so I often give them away. If this saggar fired mug works out, I will give it to the first person who can identify what it will be AND post a picture of that item :D

If it is too easy, it's just a matter being in the right place at the right time. You may recognize it as being the form I used to create my golden Olmec head.

Post #645950 by MadDogMike on Sat, Jul 28, 2012 4:09 PM