Post #783958 by danlovestikis on Thu, Feb 15, 2018 8:19 AM

hang10tiki thank you for checking. It is a mystery place but great for the mug.

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Sacramento Crawl mug 2018. The photos I am posting now are months old. I've actually cast 55 mugs that I will be sharing.

hang10tiki just went to Oahu and one of his "Tiki Finds" was this mug. Such a shock for me. I'm so relieved that I didn't put trees around the bottom of my mug because I'd thought about doing that. I've never seen this mug in the past, does anyone know if it's vintage? The bottom makes it look like a new mug. Horrors!

Every piece of this mug has to be free of undercuts for molding. I keep this in mind as I attach the snakes of clay to the volcano.

I cleaned it up and did some minor decorations.

Close up.

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Back to my original mug for the crawl.

Wherever I add clay I have to attach it so that there are no undercuts or molding it will not work. The plaster breaks off if it is trapped.

I cleaned it up and added decorations around the raised part.

Close up.

At this point I was still thinking about what I would put in the center so I just moved on to fine tuning the surface.

I also thought about how is would look when the top was trimmed and that caused me to add more clay

and to form it and to add to the detail.

I also decided that this tiki was sticking out too far from the volcano's surface so

I added clay around him and then

did the detailing.

This just shows how things evolve over time. Cheers, Wendy

PS hang0tiki when I make next years mugs no vacation for you