Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Mon, Jun 3, 2013 3:47 PM hang10tiki which all equals playing with clay and enjoying my cat. cy I hope I can get those trees on solid ground/sand. LoriLovesTiki thank you. I'm going to try to turn Ukulele Bob's face white. He needs more contrast. I'm sending you waves of inspiration. I'm making something gross. MadDogMike Sherry does jumps that scare me. So far she's fine. Woodtiki there is never a bad question only bad answers. Kidding. PM me your email address and I'll send you a copy of the call out to artists. Then you can contact Baby Doe about bringing your art. If has to be dropped off and picked up by certain dates. It's fun to do something for Tiki Oasis and it raises money for charity. I could leave the painting like this, add a half submerged tiki and call it global warming. Progress Report Sorry I missed yesterday. We are getting ready for a family reunion with lots of playing with kids. I'll post tomorrow and then I'll be running around until next week. I hope you will keep the thread alive with jokes and photoshop and messages. I'll be doing quick checks but I'll get nabbed it I'm caught. #25 and #26 out of the molds and now drying in the shed. Wet the mugs average at 12 1/2 inches...dry they are now averaging just under 12 inches. They will shrink again when they are bisque fired. Wet mugs averaged 3 3/4 pound...dry they are now averaging 3 1/4 pounds. If they are dry then bisque firing will not reduce the weight. If I fire and they are not dry they will boil and crack. I'm waiting a good long time. A long time ago I cast a lot of the hula girls. Today I was going to make a bowl with them and found that they were fine from the waist up but all the legs were paper thin. I don't know why except that they were cast in the very cold winter months. Oh well now I need to figure out what to use them for, maybe necklaces. Woodtiki asked what I'm doing for the Cannibal Swap. I started today. I'm making a stew pot from the mold I made to do 19tikichef62's bowl. Here's the start: Cast last night, slip left in for 2 hours so that it will be thick. Opened the mold this morning. I cut off the top because I want to see into the pot. I turned it over and rubbed the bottom with a wet paper towel to indent it. I'll carve my name when it firms up. Turned back over I used the towel to round the edges. I cut into the clay to make an indentation to make a lip on the pot. I made a sloppy lip. Once the clay is firmer I can work with it. However this is a primitive pot. I added clay that I can later carve into PNG masks or shields. Top view showing all three. Here's a view of the shape. I won't carve until it is firm. I wrapped it in plastic wrap so that it will dry slowly and keep these attached. I have a dilemma. I like to keep all my work on this thread but I should put photos on the Swap thread too or maybe a link until it is further along. Hummm. Thank you for the visit, more tomorrow, Wendy

hang10tiki which all equals playing with clay and enjoying my cat.

cy I hope I can get those trees on solid ground/sand.

LoriLovesTiki thank you. I'm going to try to turn Ukulele Bob's face white. He needs more contrast.
I'm sending you waves of inspiration. I'm making something gross.

MadDogMike Sherry does jumps that scare me. So far she's fine.

Woodtiki there is never a bad question only bad answers. Kidding. PM me your email address and I'll send you a copy of the call out to artists. Then you can contact Baby Doe about bringing your art. If has to be dropped off and picked up by certain dates. It's fun to do something for Tiki Oasis and it raises money for charity. I could leave the painting like this, add a half submerged tiki and call it global warming.

Progress Report

Sorry I missed yesterday. We are getting ready for a family reunion with lots of playing with kids. I'll post tomorrow and then I'll be running around until next week. I hope you will keep the thread alive with jokes and photoshop and messages. I'll be doing quick checks but I'll get nabbed it I'm caught.

#25 and #26 out of the molds

and now drying in the shed.

Wet the mugs average at 12 1/2 inches...dry they are now averaging just under 12 inches. They will shrink again when they are bisque fired.

Wet mugs averaged 3 3/4 pound...dry they are now averaging 3 1/4 pounds. If they are dry then bisque firing will not reduce the weight. If I fire and they are not dry they will boil and crack. I'm waiting a good long time.

A long time ago I cast a lot of the hula girls. Today I was going to make a bowl with them and found that they were fine from the waist up but all the legs were paper thin. I don't know why except that they were cast in the very cold winter months. Oh well now I need to figure out what to use them for, maybe necklaces.

Woodtiki asked what I'm doing for the Cannibal Swap. I started today. I'm making a stew pot from the mold I made to do 19tikichef62's bowl.

Here's the start:

Cast last night, slip left in for 2 hours so that it will be thick.

Opened the mold this morning.

I cut off the top because I want to see into the pot.

I turned it over and rubbed the bottom with a wet paper towel to indent it. I'll carve my name when it firms up.

Turned back over I used the towel to round the edges.

I cut into the clay to make an indentation to make a lip on the pot.

I made a sloppy lip. Once the clay is firmer I can work with it. However this is a primitive pot.

I added clay that I can later carve into PNG masks or shields.

Top view showing all three.

Here's a view of the shape. I won't carve until it is firm. I wrapped it in plastic wrap so that it will dry slowly and keep these attached.

I have a dilemma. I like to keep all my work on this thread but I should put photos on the Swap thread too or maybe a link until it is further along. Hummm.

Thank you for the visit, more tomorrow, Wendy

Post #680627 by danlovestikis on Mon, Jun 3, 2013 3:47 PM