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 Wed, Jul 24, 2013 9:37 AM TikiAno thank you its been really relaxing to just glaze instead of pouring, cleaning, firing, washing and with all of that a lot of lifting. Your cannibal bowl with the tennis shoes is super cute for a gruesome subject. I was happy to hear that the glaze glue worked. I just used it too. Buzzy has the Midas touch for tiki hunting. hang10tiki soon I'll have a kiln load glazed and ready to fire. I'm working every day because I want to see how they turn out too. Counting the days to Oasis? Yesterday we had two repairman and one delivery. I think I have two families out of the three that will join Tiki Central. It is important to keep tiki alive by inspiring more to join. We gave him a Harvey's and a Trader Vics coconut mug to get him started. We hope he will sign up and attend the Sacramento Crawl. We had a shower door installed. We choose a rain pattern. After it was in Mr. Moules said that he should have showed us the bamboo pattern that would have been perfect for us. I don't know what it looks like but we are happy with rain. Then the UPS guy brought my package and saw some tikis. He said he and his wife just did their backyard totally tiki. So I slowed his work day down enough to get him information on Tiki Central. I hope he'll also join our group. Glazing Progress Report Years ago I sculpted the Missionary's Downfall bowl and topless wahine to go with it. I shipped them off to Gecko in Hawaii and he made molds. He tried to cast the bowls but each time he fired it the bowl cracked. He had shipped back my sculpts so I tried to mold the bowl and ended up with a huge frustrating mess which I shared here on TC. (each time I type TC I think of Tc-99m the radioactive material I used throughout my career) Back to tikis. I ended up hand sculpting one of these bowls for Psycho Tiki D and in the kiln after glazing it cracked and I gave up. Years pass and I couldn't get this off my mind. I recently saw Gecko made two sets and sold them on eBay so I paid him cast two and send them to me unfired. So I'm trying again to make the set for Psycho Tiki D. I'm making two that are just alike in case one cracks. I've got my fingers crossed for a 50% success rate. They both survived the bisque fire. Hopefully they will survive the glaze firing. Psycho I'm trying again! Next I went to work on the bowl for the test volcano. First I sprayed the bowl with distilled water to get the glaze to stick well. I painted the bottom three times. I didn't want the bowl to be exactly the same as Pilot's temple of the Jaguar bowl so I used different glazes. First I made the cooling lava ridges with French Dimensions. This is a glaze that doesn't go flat. You can make designs that stand out. I tried to squeeze in some red with sprinkles glaze. But once in awhile a glob would make a whole bunch come out. I ended up using a brush to move it around. Each area is ringed with Red sprinkles then Orange sprinkles and then the center is yellow sprinkles. It will be fun to see how different it looks from Philots. Time to get back to glazing. I hope you are each having a good day. Thank you for the visit. Wendy

TikiAno thank you its been really relaxing to just glaze instead of pouring, cleaning, firing, washing and with all of that a lot of lifting. Your cannibal bowl with the tennis shoes is super cute for a gruesome subject. I was happy to hear that the glaze glue worked. I just used it too.

Buzzy has the Midas touch for tiki hunting.

hang10tiki soon I'll have a kiln load glazed and ready to fire. I'm working every day because I want to see how they turn out too. Counting the days to Oasis?

Yesterday we had two repairman and one delivery. I think I have two families out of the three that will join Tiki Central. It is important to keep tiki alive by inspiring more to join.

We gave him a Harvey's and a Trader Vics coconut mug to get him started. We hope he will sign up and attend the Sacramento Crawl.

We had a shower door installed.

We choose a rain pattern. After it was in Mr. Moules said that he should have showed us the bamboo pattern that would have been perfect for us. I don't know what it looks like but we are happy with rain.

Then the UPS guy brought my package and saw some tikis. He said he and his wife just did their backyard totally tiki. So I slowed his work day down enough to get him information on Tiki Central. I hope he'll also join our group.

Glazing Progress Report

Years ago I sculpted the Missionary's Downfall bowl and topless wahine to go with it. I shipped them off to Gecko in Hawaii and he made molds. He tried to cast the bowls but each time he fired it the bowl cracked. He had shipped back my sculpts so I tried to mold the bowl and ended up with a huge frustrating mess which I shared here on TC. (each time I type TC I think of Tc-99m the radioactive material I used throughout my career) Back to tikis. I ended up hand sculpting one of these bowls for Psycho Tiki D and in the kiln after glazing it cracked and I gave up.

Years pass and I couldn't get this off my mind. I recently saw Gecko made two sets and sold them on eBay so I paid him cast two and send them to me unfired. So I'm trying again to make the set for Psycho Tiki D.

I'm making two that are just alike in case one cracks.

I've got my fingers crossed for a 50% success rate.

They both survived the bisque fire.

Hopefully they will survive the glaze firing. Psycho I'm trying again!

Next I went to work on the bowl for the test volcano.
First I sprayed the bowl with distilled water to get the glaze to stick well.

I painted the bottom three times.

I didn't want the bowl to be exactly the same as Pilot's temple of the Jaguar bowl so I used different glazes. First I made the cooling lava ridges with French Dimensions. This is a glaze that doesn't go flat. You can make designs that stand out.

I tried to squeeze in some red with sprinkles glaze.

But once in awhile a glob would make a whole bunch come out. I ended up using a brush to move it around.

Each area is ringed with Red sprinkles then Orange sprinkles and then the center is yellow sprinkles.

It will be fun to see how different it looks from Philots.

Time to get back to glazing. I hope you are each having a good day. Thank you for the visit. Wendy

Post #687160 by danlovestikis on Wed, Jul 24, 2013 9:37 AM

Then the UPS guy brought my package and saw some tikis. He said he and his wife just did their backyard totally tiki. So I slowed his work day down enough to get him information on Tiki Central. I hope he'll also join our group.