Professor G big smile. It's big but I hope it shrinks well when I start to cast them. This will be the largest mold we have ever made.

Tyber Tiki I'm so glad you are home. I've been waiting for you to chime in. I work on it every day so there will be more continuously.

hang10tiki hopefully I can mold those words well.

hang10tiki that's what I call creative photography. It took a couple of seconds to figure it out. It's cold here too. I had to run a heater in my shed to keep the glaze from freezing. I have a minor in Chemistry and I can't figure out how the cold would effect the elements in the glazes. Maybe they are worried the jars will burst.

lunavideogames there is a tremendous amount of craft to doing art and that's something I could teach. That's why I share here so that everyone who wants to do this can. I was frustrated until I had a lesson from a mold maker named Mike who is a friend of kingtiedyes. Bullet hooked us up and my life changed.

LoriLovesTiki it's so fun to alter Tiki Bob since he was the first tiki mug ever made. We just keep him from ever being forgotten. I'm glad you like him.

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There's nothing better than to come here and find messages. Thank you all very much.

Progress Report on Wish List #5 Tyber Tiki's project step by steps. Maori mug/lamp.

The lamp I'm using is a reference. I won't be able to copy the detail the same but the structure will be very similar.

I use the photo to get the size correct. If I didn't do this I might get to the bottom and find I'd run out of room and I would have to add clay and make this even larger. Horrors.

So I make the pieces and check them on the photo.

I held the clay up to the mug structure to see how it would look.

It wasn't quite wide enough so I added clay to the sides.

Then I cut up the photo and checked to see if it now worked with the eyes.

I drew an outline using the photo piece and

cut out the clay to make one eye and

then the other.

The nose detail wasn't working so

I removed it.

Tweaking goes on constantly. Here I saw the nostrils needed to be larger so I added clay and

smoothed it into place with this stick.

This really looks like an alien.

Just before I finished for the day I made the top of the head thicker and more rounded. See more Tweaking.

The tiki is finally started.

Time for a good book. Goodnight, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2015-01-03 19:37 ]