Post #744064 by danlovestikis on Tue, Jun 2, 2015 9:44 AM

hang10tiki you give me smiles everyday.

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I started this mug in January and worked on it every day. While in Alaska I organized all the photos and selected those to post. It's going to look like this was a fast process but it was really very slow.

First I added my name and copywrite to the bottom.

Now it was time to add some plants.

Next the bird.

I'm blocking out the design to make sure it all fits. Now the name of the restaurant.

I blew the name up larger from the telephone book advertisement. I put it on a clay slab.

I traced the outline.

I used a tool to remove excess clay.

More and more removed.

Back to the bird.

I had the ad and a photo of a similar bird as models.

I started to work on the detail for the bird and

for the flowers.

I added plants along the side of the tiki.

Now it was time to add the sign. I used small rolls of clay to secure it to the mug.

Now it's ready for fine tuning.

Woodgrain.

All done.

Thank you all for the visit. Wendy