Post #714576 by danlovestikis on Wed, Apr 23, 2014 8:32 AM

littlegiles it is really impossible to hide black with glaze. Sometimes if you make it thick enough underglaze will hide it but this grey glaze will not. The black should all come through.

If you have one of your dolls please post a photo here to share with us. I admire that kind of painting since it is so delicate.

Love the photo of the Zombie Torch displayed, thank you. I love it when photos of my work show up here. hang10tiki has done it the most so far. We artists are hams.

Tavarua Tiki you are welcome. This posting is a lot of fun for me. I love reading the comments. It's how I start or end each day.
The next Tiki Bob I do will be for the Alien Tiki Swap. Keep posted on that thread it's up and running.
Let me say that Dan is drooling over your King's Goblet.

hang10tiki Is that the Grog Cave-Cam I see???

I thought he had a hole in the floor of the cave.

I couldn't believe my luck when I captured that image. I was so happy to see it was noticed.

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I'm getting so close to the end of the Wish List glazing. Thank you for your patience.

First up is Doo Wop's Jerry's Jungle Room mug.

This mug is an experiment. It is a night scene with some hints of color. Hopefully it will work out. I worry most about streaking of the blue.

First I painted the scene with underglaze 3 times to build it up.

The dots in the sky is a silver sparkle glaze that is filling up the stars.

Looking inside it is well glazed, nice and thick. It will turn white when fired.

Next I got some white resist.

After it dried overnight I scrapped off some of the glaze and then smoothed it with a wet towel.

I let the mug dry overnight again. I then choose this glaze for turning it into a night scene. For some pizazz the glaze has some sparkles.

I covered the whole mug with a first layer of glaze.

Next I wiped it off the high points.

I covered it with a second layer of blue glaze. This jar of glaze said that 2 or 3 layers were fine. So I used 2 and if it turns out wrong I can add a 3rd later.

Oh Doo Wop I hope this turns out as you wished.

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Next up is my first test of the Sacramento Crawl mug due the first week in October.

I picked the glazes to use.

First I painted a clear around the rim.

Then I poured it into the mug and coated all of the insides by rotating the mug three times.

Then I poured it out being careful to not have the clear run down the outside of the mug. I held it upside down for 3 minutes.

I checked to make sure it was all coated and there were no skips.

I then painted wax resist along the top edge. That way if I touch the brown glaze to this area it will wipe off and not ruin the rim. I let this dry overnight.

As I paint the top of the mug the glaze runs off of the wax resist.

Now with the mug dry I can put my hand inside to hold it while I paint on the flat brown glaze.

All done I let it dry overnight.

Now I rubbed the glaze off of the tiki.

This is a test. I expect the final to look different from this one. I will tweak until I get it right.

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Until tomorrow friends, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-04-23 09:10 ]