Post #678907 by MadDogMike on Wed, May 22, 2013 9:20 AM

Thank you for all the love folks. I am smiling because I'm happy and that is a good thing :D

As I have said before, I really believe that anything worth doing is worth doing to wretched excess. In keeping with that philosophy I am making a shrunken head cat food dish for the Headhunter Harbor.

Blank cut from 1 1/2 inch Styrofoam and edges rounded with foam shaper. About 8x10 inches

Styrofoam covered with damp tissue. It is sitting on my kiln template to be sure it will fit in the kiln.

Covered with a clay slab, trimmed and smoothed.

Flipside

Partially dried and foam removed, inside smoothed.

It is important to remove it from the mold before it gets too dry or the shrinkage will cause it to crack. I probably should have made my clay slab thicker, the walls of the container are a bit thin for being kicked around the floor of the deck.
Next a bisque firing and some glaze