Post #733395 by danlovestikis on Thu, Dec 18, 2014 2:43 PM

Tiki Shark Art my client really made a great Homer design. I was so relieved to be able to pull it off. Please keep posting the videos of you drawing on facebook. Those are such fun to watch. Thank you for the visit and kind words.

RVICTOR thank you. I'm just the hands when it comes to Wish Lists. Unless my Homer client says to let his name out of the bag your tiki mug will be posted in a day or two.

TikiAno by the time the next Wish List is up you may be able to make your idea without any help. If not I'm here for you and Tiki Ari. I've been keeping this secret since 2012. My client has had the mug for years!

hang10tiki here is your wish, the finished Homer mug.

TikiPops thank you. The drawing was by my client. I just did the sculpting from his drawings. Check out the table photo to see more of them.

lunavideogames this may be the longest secret I've ever had to hold but it's so much fun to share it now. Holden of Tiki Farm saw it too but the photos of him seeing it have my client in the picture. So for now those are still hidden away.

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This is how my instructions were delivered! I was now an undercover secret agent.

I'm all set up with glazes and detailed instructions. Most of the mug will be in pale flat buff glazes. Only the tongue, eye balls, the word Simpson's and some of the tapa will be shiny and bright.

I started by doing the interior glaze in dark brown as instructed.

Next a medium brown was placed to cover the mug. Remember every glaze is three layers deep. So you see very little of the actual work in these photos.

Next I wiped off the areas where only the wood grain detail was to show up in this brown color.

Wiped off and drying.

Side view.

Now I had to do 3 layers in the flat pale yellow without covering any of the brown wood grain. Under glazes do not allow color to bleed through.

Once the yellow was completed a lighter brown was applied over the medium brown on the lips etc.

Now Homer is just posing for you.

Back and the

other side.

Next the under glaze was covered with a gloss glaze so that Simpson's and

the tongue will be shiny.

Here are most of the glazes used. Only the red will be as bright and shiny as the strip on the left side.

Into the kiln to fire.

After the firing.

My client took these photos of the finished mug after it was hand delivered to him in Southern California.

I took these photo of Homer inspecting his monument!

He looks happy to me.

Thank you all for watching the making of this mug. This is why I do the Wish Lists. I get challenged to make things that I never would have even thought of, this next one is the same. More challenges. Even a mug larger than this one!

So tomorrow I'll be back to posting the progress of Wish List #5. Meanwhile your comments mean a lot to me and to my client as well. Your support of his idea just gives him the momentum to see this become a real project.

Cheers, Wendy