Post #714741 by danlovestikis on Thu, Apr 24, 2014 10:04 AM

MadDogMike I watched all of your travel photos on facebook. So I did know and I was so happy when you were back home.
The blood red eye did the bruise protocol and turned yellow and is almost gone. He said thank you but he'll keep the eye.
Let hope the glazing on this mug works. I have no idea so I did a lot of finger crossing.

littlegiles photos when you are ready. We all would enjoy seeing your talent.
I'm so happy to hear there have been more fingers crossed, thank you.

DooWop if I knew this would turn out I'd be super happy to reach this point. At the worst it could just all turn blue. Time will tell. I hope everyone is enjoying the suspense. There are many photos coming up soon of all the pieces glazed.
I hope you will take photos of your boyfriend with the mug in his special area and post them here.

tigertail777 Dan's eye was just a burst blood vessel. We take a baby aspirin each day to ward off heart attacks and this is a side effect. It looks like a vampire eye but there is no pain or other symptom. He'd rather have this than pink eye any day.
Doo Wop picked a special design for her mug and I enjoyed making it.
We work 7 days a week on tiki and enjoy every minute.
I get to open the kiln later today.

hang10tiki hey there. Any more drink photos with my art? I like them posted here.

TikiAno the desire to work clay will never leave you and bring you joy forever. Get back to work!

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Thank you all for your comments and visits. I eat this stuff up for breakfast. You all start my day with fun.

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I had one more load to fire of Wish List #4 projects but not enough to load the kiln. So I decided to do one of Dan's wishes that I'd set aside. I call this the Moai with the Hat bowl.

I started with the bottom of the bowl. I like to glaze whatever areas I can. I even did the inside of the Moai.

Then I glazed the Moai with flat grey.

Once I had three layers on the Moai I used a wooden pick to scrap off the glaze that had gotten on the bowls surface.

Once I'd blow off the crumbs of glaze I used a wet brush to melt off the rest. Now it is so thin that it will not show up.

Next I covered it with the red with black specks glaze, one of my favorite glazes.

The last step was to use a black cobblestone glaze that separates and runs. The red will show through where the cracks are located.

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Tiki Wahini your Rat Fink in Disneyland is up. What a challenge to glaze this fellow. He's another one that requires finger crossing. The entire mug was painted with underglaze that is not supposed to move.

Every glaze color was done 3 times. This took days with drying time. I'm showing a lot of photos but I could have done even more.

Rat Fink is mainly three colors, green, red and yellow. There were a few other colors to choose to use on different parts.

When Tiki Wahini sent the color chart she asked for yellow on the inside. Well I had a yellow glaze with green and red specks and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use that one. She also requested turquoise for the word Disneyland on the mouse ears hat.

Here I wiped off the excess turquoise glaze and

started painting the hat black.

The hat is drying and my color chart is visible.

Since I was working with black I painted in the words on the E ticket.

Black around the eyes and red gums. Started the first coat on the red body front

and back.

Finished the front.

I couldn't resist seeing how it looked with the hat.

This photo shows the straw hole in the hat.

Tiki Hula was over and had me pose for a couple of photos.

Thank you Tiki Hula. He is coming over tonight to see the kiln open and to lift out his huge and heavy bowl.

Tiki Hula looked up E ticket for Disneyland and we picked out colors that were as close as I had.

I painted the green on all the rats skin and white on the eyeballs and teeth.

Then I painted the E ticket. If the black doesn't come through I'll use enamel.

Yellow was painted on the BF. All the coats of colored glaze

are finished.

All that was left was two layers of clear glaze and a lot of praying.

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This year I've done everything differently. I have shown all of the glazing. Starting tomorrow I'll show each kiln load, the problems that some mugs encountered and how I did my best to fix them. Some were simple glaze skips and some were problems with glazes that ran. You just never know what's going to happen.

I hope that this next wave of photos will be fun and informative. When the entire Wish List #4 is complete I will take a group photo and then I'll start to contact you all and to collect payment and to ship.

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Here's a hint of what to come...

This photo was taken on 4/15/14 it is the first load glazed.

Cheers, Wendy

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