Post #788534 by danlovestikis on Mon, Jul 16, 2018 9:27 AM

hang10tiki I wish you music joy at all times.

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Time to get back to the Wish List #8. I have completed the hardest project I have ever tackled. I've already posted the sculpting of the I Dream of Jeannie project. Now I'll be posting the next steps.

I made the bottle cap and when it was almost dry I finished it off.

I opened up a hole to

hold a huge diamond.

It will tie in better once the diamond is in place and all of this is glazed.

Once all the pieces are completely dry they are bisque fired.

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Skipping the glazing and firing part let's get to the last part for the little bottle.

Since I was doing a small statue of Jeannie and she is too large to fit into the big bottle I made a small bottle for her so she could be a stand alone art piece as the huge bottle can also stand alone.

The best gold I could think of is auto pin-stripping paint.

I still wouldn't scrub it.

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Skipping the drying, sanding, fine tuning and then firing I'll go straight to glazing.

It was time to glaze the huge bottle. He desired sparkles so I used Duncan's Shimmer Black Diamond Glaze.

By the end of three layers, drying between each one, I decided to ask permission to do an experiment.

After it dried again (you can see Jeannie waiting her turn) I

did a fourth layer of Shimmer that has no color just glitter. Hopefully it would just add more glitter and the

black diamond color will still come through.

The last step was to do the inside of the bottle. The outside will have large red gems so I added extra red crystals to the glaze.

This is a project that you do because you love a challenge. The number of hours in these pieces would break anyone's bank so it's more a gift than a sale.

More photos soon, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2018-07-16 09:30 ]