Post #688083 by danlovestikis on Wed, Jul 31, 2013 10:23 AM

hang10tiki I like those words, thank you. Your necklace shipped yesterday and should arrive in the mail on Monday.

dartharnie I thought vegetables too, like minds. Dan has no choice it's going to a new home, I just don't know which one yet.

GROG I have 10 colors but they all need to be ironed. Now ironing is really the stone age so you want to come do that for me??? Your box shipped yesterday. Your get well mug should arrive on Monday in the regular mail. I sure hope you feel the love when you see it!

GROGS mug was on the bottom of my kiln. Everything on the bottom came out fine. Those things on the top did what was expected as far as defects except this Big Maori Mug. I've never seen this before and I've used this brown/green glaze lots in the past.

The outside wasn't too bad just a few skips.

The inside was so interesting that I decided to put brown/green glaze on the lip and outside skips. The lines you see are not hairline cracks they are lines where the glaze pulled apart to make the patterns.

But to see what would happen if I used clear inside the mug. Maybe it will all smear together or maybe it will retain this pattern. So it is ready to fire. When I've got more ready.

The volcano experiment told me a couple of things. One, if you add glaze to the snow so that it will be colored it just becomes a glaze that is smooth. It lost it's ability to pop and make a lava effect. So the texture on the volcano came from my sculpting and not from the snow.

The inside sealed. The piece used for the big crack worked except that you can see an outline of it.

It is now displayed in a huge Gecko bowl.

Different glazes tend to pull apart from each other. They did in the bowl I made for Philot for the Temple of the Jaguar. I expected it to happen to this bowl and it did.

Side view. This glaze did just fine.

The whole interior showing the defects.

Up close.

I filled all the defects with the glaze I used inside the cannibal pot.

Now it will dry and be re-fired.

This three hula girl bowl didn't do as well as I hoped.
The small lava spot in the bottom had the red glaze pull back. This is an easy fix.

But each of the girls faces had the black glaze blend into the skin color. This isn't supposed to happen.

The eyebrows sagged and moved and became thicker.

It worked for the cannibal bowl. The faces should have looked like this.

This one became Groucho Marks. Even the red on the bottom lip pulled up and disappeared.

It's hard to know if I can repair this with under-glaze or not. I'm going to try. I liked the bowl glaze. Oh and the nipple smoothed out so that didn't work. I'll just make a darker dot on each one.

So there you have it. 50% OK and the other 50% still may be OK after more work.

I hope your work days will be 100% successful. I'm going to go start my day.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2013-07-31 10:28 ]