Post #788445 by danlovestikis on Wed, Jul 11, 2018 7:41 AM

Wish List #8 update. The Hot Tub Hula Girl's are shipping out. Here are some of the steps I took to make them.

Pour in the water glaze and let them sit.

Then pour it out. Each mug now has a mess to clean up and I have to carefully scrub a lot of boobies.

Each girl must be cleaned well or the blue glaze will ruin the other glazes.

One done and

now I touch up the water line. I will do this several times.

After two days of work they are ready to have their bottoms done.

I leave a small square un-glazed so I can write the number of the mug there. I'm doing 101 to 118 on this Wish List.

On another day I glaze the sides of the mugs. Then when the sides are dry I turn them to let the bottoms dry.

Next I put notes into each mug so that I know the hair color etc. for each mug.

I do four layers of skin colored glaze for each mug to prevent brush strokes from showing up. Each layer must dry before the next is applied.

It always messes up the hair which I do first and

so after all the layers of skin glaze are done I have to go back and do the hair to cover the mess.

I do two layers of white and then

two layers of clear.

After the mug is fired I examine it to see if touch ups and re-firing is needed. I re-glazed 50% of the 18 this time around.

Then when ready I paint the faces with enamel and bake them in the home oven to set the paint. These are being shipped from Coast to coast this week.

Thank you for the visit, Wendy