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 Sun, Apr 27, 2014 12:06 PM VampiressRN here comes your and Corona Contessa's Zombie Torches first steps. kingstiedye it's magic you snuck them out of my kiln! hang10tiki we thank you and everyone. Your mug ended up with three firings. You'll see the story here. I really enjoy your drink photos in front of my art. Tiki Hula looked up the recipe for this drink. Big Kahuna I think that and the Mayan Temple of the Jaguar bowls are the largest things I've made. TikiHula (Hang10, I should have had Wendy make one of the heads look like me - that would have been funny) I did Gecko as himself on one side and as a shrunken head on the other. I could have done you Tiki Hula. littlegiles Dan offered to keep the AL DEAD bowl too. This is what happens with the Wish List all kinds of surprises. VampiressRN if only...I still have so much to learn. I had lots of problems with dartharnies kids bowls. I managed to fix them but it took lots of work. hang10tiki I love that parrot. You made it didn't you? ===================================================================== I opened the kiln again. Each of these posts are coming together but the work was many days apart. Top load. Instantly I could see my Bumatay fish retained their blue color and it came out looking just the same. LoriLovesTiki your Moai is not that dark. I forgot to take a photo on this day but when I post the black velvet photos yours will view better. Bottom shelf. Oh I hear the doorbell... kingstiedye came by to glaze his shakers. dartharnie I could see glaze skips on the top of the dolphin. I added glaze to this area and a few other places on the front. I decided that Abby's bowl would look better if I outlined the crest with black. All done. Her name had blurred into the yellow paint so I covered the whole area with black. I will then paint her name in red enamel. Same problem with the wand maker words. Where was my brain? Duh I don't know. I glazed the inside of the mug with gloss and then without thinking touched up the face. Horrors. That was the same Walnut but gloss glaze instead of under glaze buff. So now the whole mug needed to have the gloss applied. After this dried I again wiped it off the high surfaces but I forgot to take a photo of that step. After sitting inside for an hour Tiki Hula's Shriner's hat popped off a strip of glaze on the edge. So it was glazed again and put out to dry with all the other mugs that I'd been working on. Backsides of the Zombie Torch mugs. When these were dry I loaded the bottom shelf and then the top shelf of the kiln. Here's a close up of the first test for the Sacramento Crawl mug. Now it's time to get back to fine tuning a Tiki Atari kickstarter mug. It takes one day to do one mug! These are really detailed mugs. He did a great design. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-04-27 12:27 ]

VampiressRN here comes your and Corona Contessa's Zombie Torches first steps.

kingstiedye it's magic you snuck them out of my kiln!

hang10tiki we thank you and everyone. Your mug ended up with three firings. You'll see the story here. I really enjoy your drink photos in front of my art. Tiki Hula looked up the recipe for this drink.

Big Kahuna I think that and the Mayan Temple of the Jaguar bowls are the largest things I've made.

TikiHula (Hang10, I should have had Wendy make one of the heads look like me - that would have been funny)

I did Gecko as himself on one side and as a shrunken head on the other. I could have done you Tiki Hula.

littlegiles Dan offered to keep the AL DEAD bowl too. This is what happens with the Wish List all kinds of surprises.

VampiressRN if only...I still have so much to learn. I had lots of problems with dartharnies kids bowls. I managed to fix them but it took lots of work.

hang10tiki I love that parrot. You made it didn't you?

=====================================================================
I opened the kiln again. Each of these posts are coming together but the work was many days apart.

Top load. Instantly I could see my Bumatay fish retained their blue color and it came out looking just the same. LoriLovesTiki your Moai is not that dark. I forgot to take a photo on this day but when I post the black velvet photos yours will view better.

Bottom shelf. Oh I hear the doorbell...

kingstiedye came by to glaze his shakers.

dartharnie I could see glaze skips on the top of the dolphin.

I added glaze to this area and a few other places on the front.

I decided that Abby's bowl would look better if I outlined the crest with black.

All done.

Her name had blurred into the yellow paint so I covered the whole area with black. I will then paint her name in red enamel.

Same problem with the wand maker words.

Where was my brain? Duh I don't know. I glazed the inside of the mug with gloss and then without thinking touched up the face. Horrors.

That was the same Walnut but gloss glaze instead of under glaze buff.

So now the whole mug needed to have the gloss applied.

After this dried I again wiped it off the high surfaces but I forgot to take a photo of that step.

After sitting inside for an hour Tiki Hula's Shriner's hat popped off a strip of glaze on the edge.

So it was glazed again and put out to dry with

all the other mugs that I'd been working on.

Backsides of the Zombie Torch mugs.

When these were dry I loaded the bottom shelf and

then the top shelf of the kiln.

Here's a close up of the first test for the Sacramento Crawl mug.

Now it's time to get back to fine tuning a Tiki Atari kickstarter mug. It takes one day to do one mug! These are really detailed mugs. He did a great design.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-04-27 12:27 ]

Post #715090 by danlovestikis on Sun, Apr 27, 2014 12:06 PM