Post #798894 by danlovestikis on Wed, Nov 27, 2019 3:08 PM

How will I ever retire when it's so much fun to read comments like you two gentlemen sent to me. Thank you hang10tiki and
Sandbartender.

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Here it is the very last piece that I have finished for Wish List #8 (2018) Phase Four.

It is for Hamo. He desired a bowl that had a Polynesian flare with a 1940's screen siren. I did my best.

I did the inside of the bowl and then

the outside. The nooks and crannies behind these girls made glazing very difficult. Sometimes I used a skewer to get to the right place.

I wanted each girl to have a unique hair color. I chose these.

These are all the first of three layers for the

hair and when one is done it

has to dry.

To the drying table and then to the glazing table back and forth.

I wanted each girl to have their own unique skin tone. But in the end two are pretty much the same. Oh well.

Glazing.

Glazing.

More glazing.

The last step is to fine tune to make sure the edges are sharply delineated.

Fired cooled and the kiln was unloaded.

It seems as if the glaze on the leg pulled off some glaze from the skirt and then moved downward with gravity.

So I re-glazed the bowl to fine tune it and to correct these types of problems.

All done and ready to dry and then to fire.

Back into the kiln for the second firing after re-glazing all of these pieces.

A couple of days later they are removed from the kiln and are then painted with enamel on the faces and any needed touch up spots. There is no perfection only hard work.

All done and ready for inspection. I finished this morning and tomorrow it goes into the oven to bake. That's our Thanksgiving!

Next I will be back to work on casting and sculpting new wishes. I will be in contact for those who are now on Phase Five.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone from Wendy and Dan

PS I'm so happy I got it done just in time for Thanksgiving, I sent you a personal message