Post #742465 by TikiAno on Wed, May 6, 2015 9:25 PM

Wendy, that piece is out of this world!

Love the carving on the ship the mostest- and love how you are able to see your pre-existing forms recreate themselves in new forms. Inspired stuff!

And yes, "barely...."

Treg, great photos.

TikiVato, Boberiffic!

I admit I haven't been around TC much recently, time to read back a few pages... please stand by.

Okay, I'm back after checking the past few pages- holy cow! I missed the kiln opening! Wow, that lamp is absolutely stunning. Love all of the Wish List projects- Jon's Bob Combo might be my favorite of THIS Wish List- but all are amazing. Rasta Bob came out great- and I also love that interior glaze on the Hula Girl bowl.

SO excited to see the Tiki Modern mug get glaze fired- WOW.

The only thing I can think of re: glazes leeching into Tiki Bob's face would be, once again, to use wax resist on top of the white. You can dilute the wax resist quite a bit with water so it lasts longer/ goes further. Then again, if you haven't had this problem before there must be a reason why it happened. Or, possibly not- maybe the kiln gods were just playing with you on this load?

To this photo, I can only say, "Dan, it might be time to stop day drinking."

Wendy, you might find this interesting- my clay studio had a French visiting artist come and do a demonstration last weekend- I missed it (had to work), but I've seen a video of how he works. It shows quite a bit what happens inside a kiln as it fires. He raku fires pieces, then opens up the kiln and adds glaze when it's at temperature. The glaze quickly hardens (into glass) midair and leads to some pretty spectacular results. This isn't quite tiki, but glaze related- so thought you might want to see. He calls it "Raku Punk."

Here's the link to some photos from that day: http://californiaphotodreams.smugmug.com/Clients/Jean-Francois-BOURLARD/

You can also look up by "Raku Punk" or by his name, above. This video shows the process. It's in French, so I don't know what's being said, but it might be interesting for us clay folk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB9KVoHzcxs

Sorry for the long post!

[ Edited by: TikiAno 2015-05-06 22:05 ]