Post #656869 by danlovestikis on Sat, Oct 27, 2012 8:38 AM

hang10tiki I got right back to tiki work yesterday. Those chores can just wait!
philot I haven't seen any glow in the dark glazes. They have some that are called Neon's but they are just closer to primary colors than other glazes. I use them often. It would be so cool to have some glow.

Progress Report on the Wish List:

As of yesterday I've glazed everything that had been made and fired for the Wish List. Next we will be back to casting and I'll be back to working clay. It's time to jump on those Jaguars.

Here's yesterday.

It was time to glaze Alii Tiki's Small Tiki Frankoma Bowl. Since the tikis and the bowl are different colors I used a squeeze bottle to try to keep the colors separate. It's not perfect because these tikis are so close to the bowl but I did my best.

I tried to direct the flow of Grey Spice glaze to just the tiki.

After the glaze became solid I turned it over and did it again. This was repeated back and forth to get the 3 layers on the tikis.

I painted the Alligator glaze on the outside of the bowl 3 times and used the squeeze bottle to direct the glaze onto the bowl.

The inside has Firecracker on the bottom of the bowl and at the top. In between these two layers is Wildfire. I recently found that some glazes do not blend as they melt so I've done some blending of these two colors with a brush.

After the inside was done 3 times I added the Alligator glaze to the top rim. It takes a very long time to glaze so I watched my guilty pleasure The Housewives of New Jersey. They argued through 5 episodes! Dan's so glad to disappear into his tiki man cave when I put this trash on.

I put everything out into the back yard to dry.

Winter is coming and soon I'll be using fans to dry molds and glazed tikis.

Working to have the kiln be fuller I glazed 4 SuperCarved Small Bobs.

I'm almost ready to stop glazing the bottoms. It makes a lot more work because the spikes make sharp areas that then need to be sanded.

Here Dan's fine tuning the bottom of ebTiki's TC Tapa Bob.

I had Dan grind off as much glaze as he could from the top of Purple Bob.

Then this time I added more of the Floral glaze to the tops of the tikis and bowl. Maybe this time it will come out just fine.

It was time to put all the glazes and glaze tests back in the shed.
Modern Art for the ceramicist.

I put all the glazes on trays to haul back to the kiln shed.

Top Shelf.

Bottom shelf.

The kiln will open sometime Sunday.

Thank you for stopping by, Wendy