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LOVE YOUR SILLY COSTUME EYES,Darling! |
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Tiki Kaimuki
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Sun, Oct 28, 2012 5:22 PM
Pacman Bob is perfection. |
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VampiressRN
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Sun, Oct 28, 2012 7:26 PM
Wendy...I think you have been huffing too much glaze...LOL. Everything looks wonderful and your photography skills are great too. |
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danlovestikis
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Mon, Oct 29, 2012 7:58 AM
hang10tiki even more colors this time, my eyes are on you! Progress Report on the Wish List #3: I opened the kiln and saw right off The purple Bob bowl was only cursed on the bottom rim on one tiki this time. Dan wants everything and he grabbed this bowl and I've not seen it since. Alii Tiki's small tiki Frankoma bowl with his color choices. The squeeze bottle glaze technique worked better than I could have hoped for. Alii Tiki also helped me age these War Gods. The maybe Steve Soto's cursed purple Bob bowl. No bowl has been through such tough times. The flash didn't allow the rich colors to show up. Psycho Tiki D's War God bowl Small Bob statues with carving. 19TikiChef62's complex mug. Bob now has the Hangover/Tyson tattoos. Today the Missionary's Downfall woman gets her tatoos. I'm looking forward to another busy day. Again best wishes and prayers for all those on the East Coast. Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-10-29 08:29 ] |
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Mon, Oct 29, 2012 9:45 AM
Wendy, you needed an eyepatch :lol: I have problems too with the flash washing out the color, here's a few things I do that help
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Mon, Oct 29, 2012 2:28 PM
Wendy, Beautiful bowls- glaze combos look amazing! Great shots, look forward to seeing more.... |
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hang10tiki
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Mon, Oct 29, 2012 6:42 PM
Wow |
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Mon, Oct 29, 2012 7:07 PM
My favorite part, when they come out of the kiln all purty. |
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Mon, Oct 29, 2012 10:41 PM
Really nice Wendy!! The War God bowl is probably my favorite but really love it alll... |
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Hale Tiki
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Tue, Oct 30, 2012 7:34 AM
Dan, you lucky, lucky man. The bowls look awesome! Ahhhh. Love the new glazes. And the Frankoma bowl that's plain is quite nice too! |
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Tue, Oct 30, 2012 12:25 PM
Hi Dan and Wendy, The mugs and bowl look great. |
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danlovestikis
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Tue, Oct 30, 2012 4:00 PM
TikiAno hang10tiki Atomic Tiki Punk Beachbumz Hale Tiki The bowls look awesome! Ahhhh. Love the new glazes. And the Frankoma bowl that's plain is quite nice too! MaroneTiki Progress Report on Wish List #3: This is the first Missionary's Downfall woman who was purchased by 19TikiChef62. I'm quitting early today. I worked for 4 hours on the Mayan Temple and 1 hour on sea creatures. Photos tomorrow. I need rest and junk TV. Cheers, Wendy |
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hang10tiki
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Tue, Oct 30, 2012 8:49 PM
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dartharnie
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Tue, Oct 30, 2012 9:10 PM
Got the Wolfman Bob and the Crawl mug today. I am completely blown away. They are both so different and so wonderful. Tomorrow I open the door with Candy and one hand and a Zombie filled Wolfman in the other. Thank You. |
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danlovestikis
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Wed, Oct 31, 2012 7:22 AM
hang10tiki does that mean I could start a new career? Progress Report Wish List #3: I started the day by opening the molds and pulling out the sea creatures. Next up the Mayan Temple Jaguar Bowl. I started to do the steps at the bottom and then wised up. I needed to be able to correct it if it didn't work. All of this temple will be fine tuned as it dries. I still need to carve out the inside of the pyramid. If I don't then this will crack as it dries. Thank you always for checking in, Wendy |
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Wed, Oct 31, 2012 7:51 AM
Wow. Just . . . wow. |
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Wed, Oct 31, 2012 8:46 AM
Yeah, how did you do those?! Hand-paint them or use some sort of pen? They turned out really nice!
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Thu, Nov 1, 2012 7:29 AM
Thank you Professor G, that's how I feel about your photography. It was Halloween. We handed out 540 pieces of candy and then went inside and turned off the lights. Our next door neighbor had a haunted house and as word spread we had cars pouring in. I hope you had a fun Halloween, Wendy |
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Thu, Nov 1, 2012 4:36 PM
Lovin' the pyramid Wendy :) |
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TikiAno
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Thu, Nov 1, 2012 11:00 PM
Wendy, My mind just exploded looking at the photos of the Mayan Temple Jaguar Bowl. Thanks very much- now I have to find a mop and start cleaning up after my own head. Love it. Still smiling, though- the photos are great and I can't wait to see what comes next. [ Edited by: TikiAno 2012-11-01 23:02 ] [ Edited by: TikiAno 2012-11-01 23:03 ] |
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 2:16 AM
Thank you MadDogMike and Tiki Ano. It's fun doing something that needs some building experience with both clay and bricks. My mom was an expert brick layer. Progress Report Wish List #3: The wish of Philot... The Mayan Temple is finished.To stop it from cracking I dug out the excess clay. Next I've started on the first of the three jaguars that will support the bowl on their backs. I only have this one photo to go by. It's not a perfect jaguar but the Mayan artists rendition of a jaguar. It's time to sleep a few more hours before the work begins. I woke up and decided to post to get sleepy again. Cheers, Wendy |
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 3:24 AM
Great work Wendy. It's quite amazing to see the progress. You have no idea what the finished object will look like until it is, actually finished. From such a basic shape, it is not until it is fine tuned and all the detail is added that you can really see where it started from and how those humble beginnings don't actually show the what it is really going to look like, or the work involved to get it there. |
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 7:53 AM
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 8:58 PM
The temple is AMAZING & your mom sounds like an unusual & extraordinary woman! |
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Hale Tiki
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 9:00 PM
Hahaha. There's the temple! |
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 9:16 PM
Awesome temple...love the jag. Your Mom looked like she was quite a character. I am still enamored of the great space movies your Mom made...it was a blast watching them and M&Ms!!! |
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Love the temple and jaguar. Looking very cool Wendy! Are you going to have creeper vines over the temple, or just leave it as is? |
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danlovestikis
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Sat, Nov 3, 2012 7:34 AM
swizzle Dan was just asking if we'd had contact. When are you getting back to making your next ceramic design? hang10tiki I wish fast was true. I've been working on the Wish List #3 for months. I never give up and some people have gotten their wishes. WaikikianMoeKele my mom was both an unusual & extraordinary woman. She could do anything. She didn't just build she could paint, sculpt, make movies, write books and she always shared what she knew with those who asked. Thank you. Hale Tiki it sure makes me happy that Philot design is one that you all appreciate. VampiressRN (Awesome temple...love the jag) Using a Mayan design makes an abstract jaguar but one that is perfect for the bowl, thank you Vamp. (Your Mom looked like she was quite a character. I am still enamored of the great space movies your Mom made...it was a blast watching them and M&Ms!!!) We made some fun movies and I love showing them. You have a special mom too. tigertail777 It was too weird that I was thinking about vines when I got up this morning and there was your note. Adding green isn't going to work for the color scheme we have decided on but I can see your vision and its a good one. Thank you everyone for your comments. I'm up early to get back to the bowl. It's getting to the fun stage now. Roge sent us a gift of my Sea Creatures cast in resin. He's ready to make more chunk lamps and has some pre-made tiki lamps as well. Progress on Wish List #3: In the months before I opened #3 for orders I poured ahead and wrapped every item in plastic wrap. They all dried out and couldn't be re-hydrated. So each item is only good for carving. Yesterday Dan sanded all the remaining dry pieces for me. Philot's Mayan Temple of the Jaguar Bowl. I got all the supplies and parts together. Today I will carve out their insides. Does that sound like a Mayan ritual? Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-11-03 07:55 ] |
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150 pages, sweeeeet Great update... |
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dartharnie
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Sat, Nov 3, 2012 11:32 AM
Congrats on 150...the thread doesn't look a day older than 30. The Jaguar's are very cool. I like the individuality each carved head has. The Wolfman Bob has been dubbed, "wa...wa...Scary Monster!" by my 2 year old. I think it's a wonderful compliment. Pictures will take a while, but I promise they are coming. |
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Sun, Nov 4, 2012 6:19 AM
Your mom made space movies? It sounds like they need to be transferred and uploaded to youtube for the world to enjoy! The jaguars look good. That's going to be one mighty bowl when it's done. Looking forward to see what you're going to do with the bowl itself. |
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hang10tiki are you coming to Don's in December? 150, you noticed, thank you. dartharnie I'm looking forward to the photos with wawascarymonster. I'm glad you like the jaguar and my many pages of posts. Hale Tiki My mom made many movies with the Sacramento Armature Movie Makers (SAMM). One was of the first two woman to head to the planet Mars. Their ship was hit by a meteor and sent on to Far Planet. Someday I'll learn U-Tube. They've been taken from 16mm to VHS Tape. I need to go the next step. I finally got my analog photos back in the mail. It shows that a disposable camera left in a hot car for years degrades. I was lucky to get any photos. I can tell who these people on the Sacramento Crawl are, can you? Progress Wish List #3 Philot's Temple of the Jaguar bowl I started by removing clay inside the stone block bodies. I also assembled a Tiki Bob bowl. Dan has already claimed it as his own. I pay him good wages for helping me and he's worth it. In less than a month we'll be at Don the Beachcomber's, Huntington Beach to sell ceramics. I hope to see many of you there. Stop to visit and tell me both your names. Gosh the time went backwards. I guess we got up at 5 AM! We'll have a nice long work day. Cheers, Wendy |
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I'll be damned. That sounds like a lot of fun! And the War Gods look great all in a line. I noticed the white with blue streaks is missing though. If Dan hasn't claimed it, I'm sure someone will want it! |
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Hi Hale Tiki, the first failure I made for Professor G turned out to be Tan with light blue spots and it sold yesterday to Soccer Tiki. I did forget to photograph two, you are more on top of what I have than I am. Here's the catch up photo of the second Professor G and an aged War God. I hope they both find a good home. Progress Report Wish List #3: I continue to work on Philots bowl. It is still soft but I have begun to fill in the dips inside the bowl with sticky clay. I will do this until it is smooth. When it is dry I will sand it and then it will be flat. I add clay and softly smooth it with my fingers. I have to be careful not to add air bubbles. Next up: Scuba Bob for Marone Tiki. His lady Debbie ordered this for his birthday which is months past. He is very patient. Time to go to work, cheers, Wendy |
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Mon, Nov 5, 2012 9:07 AM
Hi Wendy, I'm back from Big Sur and am all caught up on the Dan & Wendy show. All I can say is WOW, wow! After reading about your mom and I now know where you get your creativity from. I too would love to see her movies. |
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Mon, Nov 5, 2012 11:08 AM
Scuba Bob looks like so much fun! The goggles look a little like "Cheap beachbum sunglasses" and made me smile. |
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Mon, Nov 5, 2012 9:42 PM
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Tue, Nov 6, 2012 3:22 AM
Loving the jaguar bowl Wendy! super cool! I am excited to see how it turns out and what color scheme you use. :) Regarding your photos: they actually might be more salvageable than you think, photoshop can color correct most of what you have there(tipping the magenta/red balance of color a little more back to a full spectrum), as well as sharpen the focus a bit and get rid of the lines across them. It's a little time consuming, and you have to know what your doing, but it can be done I have done similar photo corrections for clients in the past so I know its possible to gain back perhaps half of what is now lost in those photos. Just make sure that if you have it done they start with the highest resolution you can manage. :) |
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LoriLovesTiki thank you for the Wow's. Mom's movies are at the Sacramento Room of the main library. They have the original reels and the movies to view on VHS tape. They don't check them out but they have a TV and chairs where people can come to view them. She was very special and loving. dartharnie hang10tiki I sure am lucky that I'm asked to do fun projects. I just hope I can dry it slowly enough that that don't crack open and lose the O2. tigertail777 thank you for the photo-shop information. I thought it was for altering photos to tease GROG and Dan which we love to see. The Temple of the Jaguar colors have been chosen by Philot and it should look good. Thank you for your notes, Wendy Progress Report Wish List #3. Yesterday was the day to work on projects you've seen before. I did make them better. Here are the photos. I used these three tools to add coconut texture to Dan's new Coconut Bob bowl. The faces and inside of the bowl will be white and the outside brown just like the old mugs. Dan keeps grabbing all my Bob Bowls. Marone Tikis Scuba Bob Philot's Temple of the Jaguar Bowl Chunk Lamps by Roge are ON SALE on Marketplace until November 12th. He's made a mold and brought back the lamp he made in the early 60's before most of you were born! Please check them out. His lamps are terrific. http://www.etsy.com/listing/84678770/sale-15-1960s-pineapple-rock-chunks-swag Sunday November 4th, 2012 Thank you all for your support. I work for your posts they keep me going. Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-11-06 12:41 ] |
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Tue, Nov 6, 2012 10:19 AM
The fish are a nice touch on the scuba bob. You nailed it with the texture on the bowl. That's nice serendipity on finding a template for the block outlines. I like it when a plan comes together. :wink: It's going to be hard to be patient while this monster dries out. Thanks again Wendy for being willing to take on a big project like this. |
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Wed, Nov 7, 2012 7:15 AM
Philot I'm so happy to have reached this stage in making your bowl. You came up with a very good design and a fun challenge for me. hang10tiki Dan looked at that bowl and nabbed it so fast I spun in my chair. I can't get to eBay my computer is too old. Dan's in tiki withdrawal with no auction wins being delivered so he's going after what I make. Psycho Tiki D came to pick up his Frankoma bowl. I'm making some necklaces for the sale at Don the Beachcomber's sale December 2nd. Progress Report Wish List #3 Philot's Temple of the Jaguar bowl. It was firm enough that I was able to turn it over and to fill in the locks inside each jaguar and to smooth them. Today I start Loki Tiki's Santa Bob. This is a Bob in a Santa costume. Fun! Cheers, Wendy |
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Haven't checked this thread in a week and jeez I missed a lot. Really like the Wolfman and Scuba Bob! |
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OOOOH! A puffer in a real pretty medium to light green. I know a certain wahini that it would make a great present for! EDIT: I forgot to say please. PLEASE! [ Edited by: Hale Tiki 2012-11-07 08:59 ] |
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Also, I was delighted to see your use of 40 grit sandpaper to texture the stone. Brilliant! And the tube you used for the bricks, talk about a happy accident! Can't wait to see the paint scheme. |
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Cy I've just checked out your wood tiki carvings and was so impressed (as usual). Thank you for the visit. I love the creek where you found the gift of the ceder log. I get lots of fun orders those two were super fun to make. Hale Tiki I have your order for the lovely lady. When they are fired and ready to glaze I'll send you some choices for green. I love finding household items that are useful in sculpting clay. The container I used had colorful sunflower seeds that looked like M and M's in it until I started using it to store chisels. Progress Wish List #3: Loki Tiki Atomic Chick Another day playing with clay, life is good, Wendy |
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