Post #757573 by danlovestikis on Wed, Jan 20, 2016 4:19 PM

Atomicchick thank you with a smile.

LoriLovesTiki Tiki Bob was so perfect for those mugs. I'm surprised that it didn't happen sooner.

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Ever hear of the cursed tiki? Well I have a cursed volcano bowl. No I just made a mistake and had to work hard to hopefully fix it.

This is the bowl I made out of the parts when my first attempt to do Jen Tiki's, little lost tiki's bowl failed.

I picked out my favorite green/brown glaze and started on the bottom.

After I used one little jar I found all the other little jars were dried out. So I dug them out of the little jars and put them in a big jar with water and mixed them for a long time until creamy.

Always make your bisque ware damp before glazing. I sprayed it a couple of times but since the bowl was

so thick it wasn't enough. I did my 3 layers and quit for the night.

The next day I found the glaze had cracked and

was even peeling off.

I thought I would try to salvage the glaze that was on it by spraying and rubbing the glaze. It looked good so I went onto the rest of the bowl.

First I did a water colored bottom so that the volcano is an island.

Then I painted a flat black on top half of the bowl.

I covered it so that it would dry slowly overnight.

The next day I started adding a glaze that is

like lava to all the tops of the volcanos.

The last thing I did was add some red flowing lava coming out of each volcano.

Two days later when it was all dry the bottom was a mess of cracks. These will not melt together in the kiln. Instead they will pull apart further. So I scrapped it all off.

I scrubbed it with a sponge and really got it soaking wet.

Then I did 2 layers one day and

one more layer another.

It dried and this time it didn't crack. It's now waiting to go into the kiln. I have no idea if it will make it or not.

Cheers, Wendy