Tiki Central / Other Crafts / Wendy Cevola - 01/10/2025. I've begun a Wish List painting on black velvet for Todd Locker.
Post #782695 by danlovestikis on Thu, Dec 28, 2017 7:59 AM
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Wish List #8 progress report. I started casting for this Wish List at the beginning of summer so I could just take pieces off the shelf and go to work on each project. What I will start to share here are 6 Bumatay Mermaid bowls. Not all are spoken for at this time. The bowl have been claimed. #1 Alex Dulude When someone writes, "I want one of these bowls" but doesn't send me a personal message then I put a maybe with their names. I will make contact to see who wants a bowl and which one and then the rest are up for grabs. The bowls can be glazed according to the buyer or when not purchased I will choose the glazes and then show them again for sale. $200 each plus shipping. Bowl #1 may not survive firing but Alex Dulude is giving it a chanc Each mermaid starts out without a tail fin or hair. I add these on as I go. I have to make a hole in the bowl under the mermaid so that no air is trapped when fired. She is attached with sticky clay (scraps from casting mixed with slip). I cleaned and detailed four Bumatay fishes. Then I added sticky clay (scraps from casting mixed with slip) to the backs of one fish. Once I had all four in place I did more detailing. I added clay to the backs of the fish heads and ran it down to the top of the bowl. Then I detailed it too. I did some abstract wave patterns around the sides. Here's the bowl finished (for Alex Dulude).
I cut out the cracked area with a tool and found that it hadn't gone all the way through. This was good news. So then for a day I would layer on some Magic Mend repair slip. When I had over loaded the area and it was completely dry I removed the excess. Every day I check and so far as the bowl has been drying the crack hasn't come back. However it could when fired. So this bowl is really iffy. I have my fingers crossed on this one. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2018-01-02 07:49 ] [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2018-01-02 07:53 ] |