MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - Boar Tusk - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11040	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Mon, May 20, 2013 9:42 PM Thank you Lori Jon, it was great to see you again, even for a brief moment. Took a quick trip to Tiki Caliente Saturday afternoon for kind of a drive-by visit, didn't want to expose Teresa to too much craziness on her first tiki event :lol: Stayed for about 4 hour and got to say hello to some great people. I passed a couple of mugs on to Dan & Wendy (because they don't have NEAR enough mugs at home :D ) Surrounded by beautiful women, Wendy on the left and Teresa on the right. I tried a new underglaze technique on this one and was happy with the way it turned out. I don't have much formal training in this art stuff and just make it up as I go. I always just assumed that underglaze was designed to go under the glaze. You can put a dark underglaze down first then a lighter transparent color over it and the underglaze will show through but the color will be muted by the glaze over it. This time I decided to try the opaque underglaze over the lighter transparent color. I glazed the mug first with a Butter Toffee brown and fired it then did black accents with underglaze and fired again. The underglaze didn't move or run, it was solid black instead of muted, and it is usually matte finish but picked up shine from the gloss glaze. I like it :)

Thank you Lori
Jon, it was great to see you again, even for a brief moment.

Took a quick trip to Tiki Caliente Saturday afternoon for kind of a drive-by visit, didn't want to expose Teresa to too much craziness on her first tiki event :lol: Stayed for about 4 hour and got to say hello to some great people. I passed a couple of mugs on to Dan & Wendy (because they don't have NEAR enough mugs at home :D )

Surrounded by beautiful women, Wendy on the left and Teresa on the right.

I tried a new underglaze technique on this one and was happy with the way it turned out. I don't have much formal training in this art stuff and just make it up as I go. I always just assumed that underglaze was designed to go under the glaze. You can put a dark underglaze down first then a lighter transparent color over it and the underglaze will show through but the color will be muted by the glaze over it. This time I decided to try the opaque underglaze over the lighter transparent color. I glazed the mug first with a Butter Toffee brown and fired it then did black accents with underglaze and fired again. The underglaze didn't move or run, it was solid black instead of muted, and it is usually matte finish but picked up shine from the gloss glaze. I like it :)

Post #678759 by MadDogMike on Mon, May 20, 2013 9:42 PM