Post #672848 by danlovestikis on Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:42 AM

LoriLovesTiki I'm lucky he shared it with me.

tigertail777 I thought it was GROG in the spoon!

hang10tiki his favorite book too.

GROG he thinks he looked better in your photo and wants to grow it back. That black velvet keeps him in the garage.

hang10tiki yummy.

I caught Dan checking out his stash of tikis above the refrigerator. He has invaded the kitchen in more than one cupboard and I don't even consider this a tiki room.

Progress Report:

More glaze popped off of Mr. Pac Man so I've decided to just paint him with enamel and give him as a gift to Atomic Chick. I just can't spend all these hours re-doing this mug. Maybe one day I'll start from scratch. But for now my goal is to make him look presentable.

This first load of Severed Heads out of the kiln was a test load of the spray painter working. To get the glaze to come out I had to add a small amount of water. This thinned the glaze.

Each of the heads were examined and I thought they looked anemic. We compared them to the original head and found that they were almost identical. The difference is that these are so much larger that you see more of the skin. Dan said they needed more blood running out of the top too.

So I re-painted the skin, the black smudges, the hair and the added far more blood. They go into the kiln today.

It took an entire day to re-paint the 8 heads but it should be worth it. I want them to be right.

By Tuesday I'll be packing them up for the International Market Place at Don the Beachcomber's.

Happy Easter from Dan and Wendy