Post #744014 by danlovestikis on Mon, Jun 1, 2015 2:30 PM

IDoVooDoo the 13th sounds perfect. ================================================

Now it's time to start showing the SACRAMENTO CRAWL mug for 2015. The crawl takes place on October 2nd, 3rd and 4th and has been planned by VampiressRN. This years is going to be an especially fun time with homes from Grass Valley to Woodland and a bunch in-between.

The mug this year is based on Sacramento's Bali Hai. No one knows much about it so I've used the telephone book advertisement. I've been working hard on this one, it's a huge fogcutter mug.

This is my inspiration.

I took a fired cast of my new fogcutter mug and

made it bigger with Romo Clay #2. This clay is hard to work with so I use a wooden thumb.

All done.

Inside the mug I marked the mug into halves. I need to keep them in mind for molding the mug when it's finished.

I began to layer the clay to build out the tiki head.

I built it out further than needed so that I

could use a knife to cut straight down to the bottom of the mug. I didn't want his bottom out further than the bottom of the mug.

I just checked here and found that I needed to round the face or it would look like a robot.

I added clay to the middle.

Nice and rounded.

Now I started to carve the detail into the face.

Outlined.

As I proceed with the mug I'll revisit this area to fine tune it.

I'm going to show all the steps to make this mug. The mold will be a five piece mold and that will come up after the sculpture is completed.

On the way to the crawl, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2015-06-02 16:50 ]