Tiki Central / Other Crafts / Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available.
Post #708211 by danlovestikis on Fri, Feb 14, 2014 1:43 PM
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TikiAno well welcome back, I missed you. We like Napa. So many mugs that could be made and so little time. GROG where are U? hang10tiki and you started it all. I wish MP would get his up and going because Dan's number one and the order list. I'm happy to make them until he starts. MP where are U? ebtiki let me know if you want it plain or carved like Dan's. Glad you like it. ================================================================================= Last year Tiki Atari had $85,000 in orders for his first mug. Imagine that! Now he's got his second mug off the ground with Tiki Farm making the run. I'll be doing some 1/1's and add on's in color and clay for his project. That's why I've been working furiously on all the Wish List Projects and the Sacramento Crawl mug. If you scroll down his kickstarter page you'll see my bio and photo with lorikeets my favorite bird. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jchaffin/the-innsmouth-fogcutter-tiki-mug-from-horror-in-cl/ ================================================================================= Today for Valentine's Dan and I exchanged presents and since some are tiki I'm going to share with you. I was swap partners with CY and today I let Dan open the box. His work of Tiki Album Art now hangs in our newest tiki room. We love it, thank you CY. We always make our cards for each other. I made a Moai head doily card for Dan. I printed and framed the pictures I've used for 2013 and 2014 crawl mugs. He's holding them where they will hang in his newest tiki room. My art projects are all over the table drying. This is the card Dan made for me. Inside was a coupon for a 20 second kiss. I used it right away but didn't remember to take a photo, the kiss was that good! We wish you all a very Happy Valentine's. ============================================================= Next up THE SACRAMENTO CRAWL MUG for 2014 October. I've started taking orders and they are about to be posted on page one of this thread. Here's how I made the sculpt in professional sculptors Romo Clay number 3. I used a bowl as a base shape and then I melted this clay and added it to the bowl. Once it was in this shape I molded it and used it for project. 19tikichef62 came along and wanted a cannibal bowl so I got it out and added the top portion. It took days and lots of melted clay. When the shape was as he requested I then molded the bowl and have used it in projects. Now it's time for the next Crawl mug and I decided I wanted to do a large coconut mug/bowl. The Thank you 1961Surf for the thread on this place. I'm using your post for my mug. All of us hate making molds so if you can find a short cut then we take it. So I decided that I'll use the mold to make a mold. By using the mold sides I won't have to build up pounds of clay as shown in the photo above. So I marked the first mold piece on the clay. This line will be my boundaries for the front of the mug as I sculpt it. I printed pages from 1961Surf's thread in different sizes until I found what I knew would work for the mug. Bullet/Kingstiedye came for a visit while I was working. I started by tracing the letter's. Then I began to carve. It's important to not have any undercuts or the plaster will break off from the mold when it is pulled apart. Then I outlined the tiki with a sharp point. As a coconut mug the top will be cut off just below the ring. Now I outlined the features of the tiki. I'm wearing out so I'll stop here. I'll post more tomorrow. Thank you all for the visit. I'm going to set up page 1 of this thread for orders. You do not have to attend the crawl to buy a mug. I will ship after the crawl has ended. Thank you always for the visit. Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-02-14 14:23 ] |
