SWIZ - Mugs 'n' Stuff....yep! More lamps (and some pendants). - Other Crafts

S swizzle Tiki Socialite Melbourne,Australia Joined: Jun 03, 2007 Posts: 1449	S swizzle Posted posted on Sun, Oct 11, 2015 6:09 AM WOW! It's been nearly a year since i've posted here in my thread. A lot has happened since then so let's get started. First things first, thank you Will carve, hang10tiki, hiltiki and Marcus for your compliments. LoriLovesTiki, you now have something of mine. So, back in March i had to move out of the place i was living in and unfortunately i am not set up to do any ceramics at the moment. I'm hoping i'll be able to change that soon but at the moment all i'm able to do art wise is some woodworking which you'll see in a moment. All of these ceramics pictured are pieces i had finished just before i moved house but for whatever reason i just never posted them. There's a good chance there might be some missing but i think this is all of them. I'll give a brief comment on any that i think you might find of interest. So without further ado, here we go. Staff Sergeant Nuoai's. Self-portrait. (Personal collection). I made three mugs with these skulls. A good friend requested one with a moko. A gift for a friend. This was supposed to be for a trade but the glaze just wouldn't work as my trade partner wanted it (although i liked it like this) so i ended up doing something completely different which he was really happy with. I tried another different glaze over the top of this mug and it came out great but unfortunately cracked. I don't have any pictures of it at the moment though. This is (one of) the mugs i ended up trading for and the piece i received in return. An amazing stone pendant carving by the extremely talented Paipo. Although its been a while since he posted here, if you search for his name you'll find his thread. (Had to use this pic from my Instagram account. I can't find the originals). Here's a Brigadier VF1. A few Corporal Punishment's. Here's a goblet version. Because i used a fat lava glaze on the base i put it on some stilts and as i wasn't aware that it wasn't level, when it came out of the kiln the skull inside the bowl didn't fuse centered. Instead of re-firing it a friend was happy to take it for a discount. Here's a few Lance Corporal Stoney bowls. This first one i really liked with the coconut texture on the outside but it was quite thin and ended up cracking, so i remade it but this time i added some rope detail to it. This one belongs to VampiressRN (I think). LoriLovesTiki's bowl. So that's it for ceramics at the moment. Like i mentioned earlier, there might be a few pieces i've missed, including some pendants, but now to my current projects. I've always enjoyed working with wood and have wanted to make some lamps/lights for a while and as i have no room to do ceramics it's given me the perfect opportunity to get started on some as i can easily set up a workhorse in the back yard and only need a few power tools at hand. I've completed two so far, which are quite basic, but i'm very happy with the results. I've been working on several at the same time and the next few, once completed, will be quite different. I bought a router (which i love using) and here's one of the pieces from the first light i finished. As i just said, i've been working on several pieces at once so you'll see more router work on the lights still to come. Burnt and stained. The piece on the left is for the top. The other one in the photo above will be used in another light. This is actually a pic of the second light i finished. I didn't take a pic of the first one but it is assembled in the same way as this. Wrapped in fabric. With trim added and then wired up and finished. Lit up. And here is the second light. It's not quite as tall as the first and has some cowrie shells added to it. Lit up. And finally, something else i've started. As i said, i'm really enjoying using a router so i thought i'd use it to make a carving of my logo. The pic on the left is before i bought a small router bit so i could finish the hibiscus flowers which i did today (the pic on the right). Now it needs to be sanded and stained. So that's it for the moment. Hopefully it won't take a year until my next update. :lol: Cheers swizzle [ Edited by: swizzle 2015-10-11 18:16 ]

WOW! It's been nearly a year since i've posted here in my thread. A lot has happened since then so let's get started.

First things first, thank you Will carve, hang10tiki, hiltiki and Marcus for your compliments. LoriLovesTiki, you now have something of mine.

So, back in March i had to move out of the place i was living in and unfortunately i am not set up to do any ceramics at the moment. I'm hoping i'll be able to change that soon but at the moment all i'm able to do art wise is some woodworking which you'll see in a moment.

All of these ceramics pictured are pieces i had finished just before i moved house but for whatever reason i just never posted them. There's a good chance there might be some missing but i think this is all of them. I'll give a brief comment on any that i think you might find of interest. So without further ado, here we go.

Staff Sergeant Nuoai's.

Self-portrait. (Personal collection).

I made three mugs with these skulls. A good friend requested one with a moko.

A gift for a friend.

This was supposed to be for a trade but the glaze just wouldn't work as my trade partner wanted it (although i liked it like this) so i ended up doing something completely different which he was really happy with. I tried another different glaze over the top of this mug and it came out great but unfortunately cracked. I don't have any pictures of it at the moment though.

This is (one of) the mugs i ended up trading for and the piece i received in return. An amazing stone pendant carving by the extremely talented Paipo. Although its been a while since he posted here, if you search for his name you'll find his thread.
(Had to use this pic from my Instagram account. I can't find the originals).

Here's a Brigadier VF1.

A few Corporal Punishment's.

Here's a goblet version. Because i used a fat lava glaze on the base i put it on some stilts and as i wasn't aware that it wasn't level, when it came out of the kiln the skull inside the bowl didn't fuse centered. Instead of re-firing it a friend was happy to take it for a discount.

Here's a few Lance Corporal Stoney bowls.
This first one i really liked with the coconut texture on the outside but it was quite thin and ended up cracking, so i remade it but this time i added some rope detail to it.

This one belongs to VampiressRN (I think).

LoriLovesTiki's bowl.

So that's it for ceramics at the moment. Like i mentioned earlier, there might be a few pieces i've missed, including some pendants, but now to my current projects.

I've always enjoyed working with wood and have wanted to make some lamps/lights for a while and as i have no room to do ceramics it's given me the perfect opportunity to get started on some as i can easily set up a workhorse in the back yard and only need a few power tools at hand. I've completed two so far, which are quite basic, but i'm very happy with the results. I've been working on several at the same time and the next few, once completed, will be quite different.

I bought a router (which i love using) and here's one of the pieces from the first light i finished. As i just said, i've been working on several pieces at once so you'll see more router work on the lights still to come.

Burnt and stained. The piece on the left is for the top. The other one in the photo above will be used in another light.

This is actually a pic of the second light i finished. I didn't take a pic of the first one but it is assembled in the same way as this.

Wrapped in fabric.

With trim added and then wired up and finished.

Lit up.

And here is the second light. It's not quite as tall as the first and has some cowrie shells added to it.

Lit up.

And finally, something else i've started. As i said, i'm really enjoying using a router so i thought i'd use it to make a carving of my logo. The pic on the left is before i bought a small router bit so i could finish the hibiscus flowers which i did today (the pic on the right). Now it needs to be sanded and stained.

So that's it for the moment. Hopefully it won't take a year until my next update. :lol:

Cheers
swizzle

[ Edited by: swizzle 2015-10-11 18:16 ]

Post #752392 by swizzle on Sun, Oct 11, 2015 6:09 AM