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D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Wed, Jul 20, 2016 9:23 PM hang10tiki thank you so much for all these fun photos. I love the paint on the Beetle. The Gecko'z mugs and Beachbumz shots are fabulous. I like the selfie of you and Janelle together, that was so sweet. 15,000 Aloha shirts, did you get one there? Thank you for the photo of my 3 million views!!! Danno, I've been working on your Diamond Head Island with Hilton Hawaiian village on it. It needs to fire one more time. Photos will eventually show up here. I hope I can make your wish come true. I did it now instead of at the end of December because I'm perfecting this technique so I can offer it for others during the next Wish List. I am even doing a HUGE bowl in this manner. Thank you for the congratulations. ========================== The HUGE Tiki Bob Hula Girl Monkey bowl is done being glazed. Here are the final steps. Dan and I looked the bowl over and together decided that it would look better if those sand colored lines were not on the Tiki Bob's. Tying in still needs to look good. So first I used a carving tool to scrap off all the glaze possible. I got most of it off. I did this on all four tikis. Then I used water and a brush to take off the rest. I re-glazed all the areas I'd just cleaned off and then I once again fine tuned the glazing on the lines. Glazing the tapa Tiki Bob was really hard. I needed to be a contortionist to get to all the places because other Bobs were in the way. Upside down shows all the places that were missed with the bowl was upright. I saved the little monkey for last. I tied him into the bowl and hula skirt by making the coconut the same green. Owen requested that the fez be blue so that worked well too. Again the bowl needed to dry overnight. I did many layers of white underglaze until all the grey on the bisque went away. I did this on all four Tiki Bobs. I didn't think this day would arrive. I finally have all the colors on this HUGE bowl. The only thing left was to put on the layers of clear. The last time out to dry. By far this was the most labor intensive glazing job I have ever done. So many different colors. Next it will need to fire. Oh I so hope the glazes do not run on the faces of these Tiki Bobs. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2016-07-21 08:05 ]

hang10tiki thank you so much for all these fun photos. I love the paint on the Beetle. The Gecko'z mugs and Beachbumz shots are fabulous. I like the selfie of you and Janelle together, that was so sweet. 15,000 Aloha shirts, did you get one there? Thank you for the photo of my 3 million views!!!

Danno, I've been working on your Diamond Head Island with Hilton Hawaiian village on it. It needs to fire one more time. Photos will eventually show up here.
I hope I can make your wish come true. I did it now instead of at the end of December because I'm perfecting this technique so I can offer it for others during the next Wish List. I am even doing a HUGE bowl in this manner. Thank you for the congratulations.

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The HUGE Tiki Bob Hula Girl Monkey bowl is done being glazed. Here are the final steps.

Dan and I looked the bowl over and together decided that it would look better if those sand colored lines were not on the Tiki Bob's. Tying in still needs to look good.

So first I used a carving tool to scrap off all the glaze possible.

I got most of it off. I did this on all four tikis.

Then I used water and a brush to take off the rest.

I re-glazed all the areas I'd just cleaned off and then I once again fine tuned the glazing on the lines.

Glazing the tapa Tiki Bob was really hard.

I needed to be a contortionist to get to all the places because

other Bobs were in the way.

Upside down shows all the places that were missed with the bowl was upright.

I saved the little monkey for last. I tied him into the bowl and hula skirt by making the coconut the same green. Owen requested that the fez be blue so that worked well too.

Again the bowl needed to dry overnight.

I did many layers of white underglaze until all the grey on the bisque went away.

I did this on all four Tiki Bobs.

I didn't think this day would arrive. I finally have all the colors on this HUGE bowl.

The only thing left was to put on the layers of clear.

The last time out to dry.

By far this was the most labor intensive glazing job I have ever done. So many different colors.

Next it will need to fire. Oh I so hope the glazes do not run on the faces of these Tiki Bobs. Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2016-07-21 08:05 ]

Post #766448 by danlovestikis on Wed, Jul 20, 2016 9:23 PM