Post #654515 by danlovestikis on Fri, Oct 5, 2012 8:07 AM

littlegiles
Quinn Tiki
Philot
Kele
vampiressRN

I do love a challenge. I'm just so happy that Philot sent diagrams for me to follow. I once took the entrance exam for dental school. Part of it required that you carve a tooth from instructions like these. I aced the tooth and flunked reading. I had just taken a speed reading course and when I tried it during the test I blew it. I ended up with a negative score meaning I didn't read anything I just guessed at the answers and guessed wrong!

Thank you all for your comments on the little sea creatures and Philots wonderful challenge for me. You all rock!

Progress Report:

Dan worked really hard yesterday. He boxed and numbered all the crawl mugs.

It's good to see them ready for the trip along the crawl. Someday I'll uncover my furniture and have a normal house!

I worked on Alii Tikis small Frankoma bowl. Now it needs to dry.

I also cast and cleaned another Frankoma statue for Professor G. I'll try again to make his wish come true.

I decided to take the rest of the afternoon off and just play. I made a crazy sea life tiki vase with the recent casts from my new mold. This taught me a lot about how I need to cast them.

As I made this I dropped the Frankoma tiki on its face so I have to re-carve it into a different tiki.

The major problem was to keep air pockets from forming. This will probably explode.

I had to fill the backs of the creatures with clay or cut an air exit hole.



I'll go back and add some seaweed or other details. When it dries more I'll carve more detail into the floats and other creatures.

It will be fun to decide how to glaze it.

Chores today I hope I get to play with clay too. Cheers, Wendy