Post #766665 by danlovestikis on Tue, Jul 26, 2016 10:00 AM

TikiAno Thank you and thank you and more thank yous!

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This mug is for Danno. He requested a Diamond Head Island mug with the addition of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Tower.

I cast all of these blank mugs so I could do these for the next Wish List #7 but I decided that I would do some now so that I could use them for advertising. So Danno and a guy at the Alibi in Portland will get theirs now. All the rest can be ordered for the next Wish List.

Since these mugs are really blank I had to start by painting in glaze my information.

Next I glazed the inside in my favorite spotted blue glaze.

I decided to try a new technique of cutting out some of the picture with the blue painter's tape.

Then I painted the sky over this tape.

I did three layers drying each between coats.

Then I let it dry completely and then I peeled off the tape.

After I did this I glaze painted the water at the bottom. When it dried I used a carving tool to remove this paint. So now I have two ways to do this.

Why am I removing paint? I have had some times where this CN glaze by Duncan has spread out when layered.

Now I began to paint the palm trees.

Then I painted in Diamond Head Island and the buildings.

Next I began detailing the palm trees.

Here I used the backend of the paint brush to carve the paint.

Next I worked on the palm fronds.

I used three colors.

The tips were actually yellow.

I also added coconuts to each palm tree.

So here's how it looked at the end.

Here's the Hilton Tower.

Here's the little one done with a tooth pick.

Cliffhanger: It has gone into the kiln days ago so tomorrow you'll see if it turned out or did not...

Cheers, Wendy.