Post #788863 by TikiAno on Mon, Jul 30, 2018 3:20 PM

Talking about cutting it close! I actually thought the Art Swap finished right before Oasis, glad I was ahead of (someone's?) schedule!

I've been slowly working on the Swap piece, but using this different clay has created issues. One of the "add ons" popped off (sometimes using two different clay bodies can create some issues, not unlike a big family dinner). It was a clock, so not a momentous part. I worked around it, and it bisque fired okay. The sleeping Moai is getting some Zzzzz's. Would a Moai dream of tikis? Another Moai? A Ms. Moai? Need to have a few drinks and think this one through.

It looked like this a few days ago:

FYI the brown clay will actually turn black when it vitrifies. It's since been glazed, and hopefully survived the glaze firing. I used a few different glazes, which will hopefully highlight this black clay. As I mentioned earlier, this darker clay body didn't get along with a great many glazes- though I fired a few test tiles and they survived.

I'm going to go down to the studio tomorrow and keeping fingers crossed! :)

Love everyone's pieces, and hope mine isn't in pieces tomorrow, hahahaha.

[ Edited by: TikiAno 2018-07-30 15:26 ]