Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Thu, Aug 3, 2017 9:12 AM hang10tiki so glad, thank you. We have every photoshopped picture you have done of us on TC. We also have those from lunavideogames and Tiki Ano and everyone else. We love them. You keep us all entertained. ========================== Wish List #7 Remember the KZap cat for Bullet that failed. Well I used the same jar of glaze and had this mug fail too. I had thought the problems were from dust but sometimes glaze just goes bad. This wish is for HopeChest. He gets to have it for the price of shipping. It will do well on display. Here are all the steps that failed. What made it fail was hard design to glaze, my bad choices, bad glaze. Learn from my mistakes. This mug was made to match this matchbook. I picked two glazes that were close. I painted 3 layers of gold glaze on the mug and let it dry. Then I scraped it off all the raised areas including the grass. Then I wiped down all the areas with a wet paper towel. All done with the gold. Once all the 3 layers of gold were applied it was time to start on the green glaze. Glazing around lettering is the hardest part of any project. I spent an hour to do one layer. It would need 2 or 3 more. All of a sudden I had a bright idea (it will not go well). Why not glaze it green and then use this dental tool to remove the green down to the layers of gold. It looked really good. CN glazes are supposed to stay put so I thought this was a home run. First firing in the kiln and the green and gold glaze over the entire mug had run together. The gold glaze had also skipped in numerous place. Far worse than if it was from dust particles. Second glazing and the bad glaze jar that was thrown out after it still didn't work. Third glazing with new glaze. Still blending and not acceptable. If I make something like this in the future I'll use Duncan CC glazes not CN glazes. After the third firing didn't work I decided to just fine tune it with Liquitex enamel paint. I mixed the color to match as close as I could get it. Baked in the oven 325 degrees for 45 minutes. Dan just finished boxing it for shipment. It will go out today. Wendy PS there are still more wishes to show

hang10tiki so glad, thank you. We have every photoshopped picture you have done of us on TC. We also have those from lunavideogames and Tiki Ano and everyone else. We love them. You keep us all entertained.

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Wish List #7 Remember the KZap cat for Bullet that failed. Well I used the same jar of glaze and had this mug fail too. I had thought the problems were from dust but sometimes glaze just goes bad.

This wish is for HopeChest. He gets to have it for the price of shipping. It will do well on display. Here are all the steps that failed. What made it fail was hard design to glaze, my bad choices, bad glaze. Learn from my mistakes.

This mug was made to match this matchbook. I picked two glazes that were close.

I painted 3 layers of gold glaze on the mug and let it dry.

Then I scraped it off all the raised areas including the grass.

Then I wiped down all the areas with a wet paper towel.

All done with the gold.

Once all the 3 layers of gold were applied it was time to start on the green glaze.

Glazing around lettering is the hardest part of any project. I spent an hour to do one layer. It would need 2 or 3 more.

All of a sudden I had a bright idea (it will not go well). Why not glaze it green and then use this dental tool to

remove the green down to the layers of gold.

It looked really good. CN glazes are supposed to stay put so I thought this was a home run.

First firing in the kiln and the green and gold glaze over the entire mug had run together.

The gold glaze had also skipped in numerous place. Far worse than if it was from dust particles.

Second glazing and the bad glaze jar that was thrown out

after it still didn't work.

Third glazing with new glaze.

Still blending and not acceptable. If I make something like this in the future I'll use Duncan CC glazes not CN glazes.

After the third firing didn't work I decided to just fine tune it with Liquitex enamel paint. I mixed the color to match as close as I could get it.

Baked in the oven 325 degrees for 45 minutes.

Dan just finished boxing it for shipment. It will go out today. Wendy

PS there are still more wishes to show

Post #778479 by danlovestikis on Thu, Aug 3, 2017 9:12 AM