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tobunga
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04/17/2019
Please join us Sunday June 30th @NOON for our next Parking Lot Sale and Art Show: BOWL-O-RAMA 2 The bar opens and vending begins at NOON Vendors for the parking lot sale include: VENDING SPACES ARE FILLED. For art show placement please PM me here, or email ericoctober@gmail.com [ Edited by: tobunga 2019-05-14 22:00 ] |
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04/19/2019
The male bartender was a dick at Tonga huts holiday party. And what’s with the super limited drink menu? |
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04/20/2019
MOAR BOWLS! Glad to see a sequel to the first Bowl-R-Rama. See ya at the Hut. kevin |
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04/20/2019
Looks like GROG gonna have to bust out some mud to make a bowl or two. GROG' clay pretty dry. Gonna have to soak it a bit to get it workable. GROG have a couple of ideas for some Volcano bowls that GROG came up with years ago, but never got around to making them. Hiphipahula and Trader Tom Morgan even came up with drink recipes to go with the bowls. GROG might only have enough time to get one handmade bowl done, though. |
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04/21/2019
GROG trying to find inspiration for what kind of bowl GROG should make for the Bowl-O-Rama2 art show. Maybe something like this: [ Edited by: grog 2019-04-21 10:38 ] |
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04/23/2019
Eric October encouraged the artists to post progress pics, so here GROG' crap being made: GROG work area in kitchen, just outside of Tiki Room. Shelves of crap in-progress or waiting to be fixed. JAVA BOBs have been there forever. GROG dig out bowls GROG already made or in-progress. The ugly white Tiki Bob bowl with the pink face was for one of the Tonga Hut art shows way back Back in 1,000,000 B.C. when GROG last made a mold, GROG made too much plaster for the mold, and GROG (being a cheap bastard) not want to waste plaster. So, GROG grab a Tiki light So, this how it's looking right now on it's way to becoming a Volcano Scorpion bowl. [ Edited by: GROG 2019-04-23 00:48 ] |
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04/23/2019
Swizzle see moai swizzle ask GROG for about 7/8 years ago. Bowl is looking good. |
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04/24/2019
Go, GROG, go! |
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04/24/2019
GROG!!! |
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04/25/2019
I better get to work. What terrific photos GROG. I've been missing your posts. Wendy |
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04/26/2019
GROG! Good to see you hanging out here! I have too many project on the fire but I want to try to get something done for the Bowl Show. I was working on a shrunken head and it inspirted me. I want to make an Intrepid Jungle Explorer Bowl dedicated to those brave men who charted the unknown jungles of Papua New Guinea only to "get small", and not in the Steve Martin style :o Quick concept photo but three shrunken explorer heads (without pony tails) form the base for a bowl made from one of their pith helmets. |
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04/26/2019
Go, Mike, go! |
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04/26/2019
Thanks for the comments everybody. MDM, I really like your concept. Looking forward to seeing it finished. I probably won't get around to working on mine again until either Saturday, or Sunday. |
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04/27/2019
WOW!!! Great stuff GROG & MadDog! Wendy! Would love to see how your piece is coming along! Hope you can complete in time! Speaking of which... I've just started one of at least two bowls I hope to have finished for the event. Here's a photo of what I've created so far. It may not look like a bowl yet, but it's just the first part of... umm... quick count... aww crap... five parts to complete the piece. I'll post more in progress shots as the pieces develop! Mahalo! |
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04/27/2019
That's a lot of detail Eric!!! :o |
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04/28/2019
I built Baldwin yesterday, one of the three intrepid explorers. Now to hold him in his wet state until he's joined by his other two explorers. |
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04/29/2019
Yay. Fun stuff Tobunga and MDM. Looking forward to seeing the progress. GROG work on GROG' bowl yesterday. Had another side that needed clay rocks. GROG cheap bastard and not like wasting anything. So when GROG had extra clay left over from previous projects, GROG kept the Adding rocks attached by paper clay, and then the fun part---making lava flows with slip. It's tricky, because it needs to be the right consistency to get nice looking flows. May have overdone it with the lava, but we'll see. Now to let it dry and hope it doesn't crack. |
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04/30/2019
WOW!!! Interesting technique, that looks sweet Ernie! Are the edges going to be fragile after when you fire it when you set the bowl down on the table? |
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05/01/2019
The sides shouldn't be too fragile. There's a layer of paper clay under the bowl that GROG attach to the bottom of the bowl before GROG start adding clay rocks. GROG also cut into the circumference of the bowl, so it's not going to be as wide as it is in the last photos. You are the one that told GROG about paper clay, and the stuff awesome---so, thanks MDM. Looking fwd to seeing how your bowl progresses. |
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05/02/2019
Looking good |
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05/03/2019
Now GROG letting it sit and dry slowly so it doesn't crack too much. Cracks are OK in the rocky areas, but not in the lava flows. |
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05/04/2019
Wow! And to think I learned about paper clay from GROG! So amazing how info gets passed along from artist to artist! Love it! Here's an updated progress shot of my bowl with the hut I previously posted in situ... the element in the middle will become the fire chamber, and in the foreground is another part that's in the works. I shot this photo on April 28th... the day the Kon Tiki Expedition set sail from Peru. We're getting ready to watch the documentary... that's what's in the background! Can't wait to see everybody's progress! [ Edited by: tobunga 2019-05-07 23:08 ] |
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05/04/2019
You're such a tease. Looking good so far Tobunga. GROG' bowl getting some good sized cracks. Letting it dry too fast. Trash bagging it better to slow cracks. |
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05/05/2019
Since all GROG can do right now is wait for "Volcano" bowl to dry, GROG decide to do a couple of other bowls in the meantime since GROG GROG has made some Wangaroan Bowls with the Tiki in the middle of the bowl, but now it time to make a traditional 3 tiki Scorpion bowl with |
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05/05/2019
Yesterday's progress for creating the Wangaroan Bowl. Pour the bowl. Dump the bowl. Remove the Wangaroan from the mold. Cut off excess wang. Pour two more Wangaroans and attach their bases. This will be how it looks altogether. (Not attached yet). Today---(1)clean the seam lines off. (2)Carve detail and wood grain. (3) Attach Tikis to the bowl. Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/5038/4cd0536e.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=bb3c7ae1768d080c3e03967388c754f0 [ Edited by: GROG 2019-05-05 22:39 ] |
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05/06/2019
Wow men these are impressive bowls that you have been sharing. I am entering a mermaid bowl for the show. I cast one and then I added all the missing parts. I want it to sell so I enhanced her bosom. I cleaned up a good sized bowl to hold her and Then I attached her in the center. More soon, Wendy |
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05/06/2019
GROG thought you were going to do a one-legged cat bowl. :D Fun stuff Wendy. Today GROG clean, add wood detail and attach Wangaroan Tikis to the bowl. GROG add better wood detail later when it's drier. GROG clean little Moais for the other bowl. And GROG pour bowl to attach to the Moais. |
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05/07/2019
Here is the rest of the Mermaid bowl story. Once the bowl had been drying for a week I decided to carve around the bowl. Weeks later the bowl was dry, sanded and bisque fired. Now it was time to glaze it. I emptied all these half filled jars of glaze to fill the bowl. After 30 seconds I poured it out and then cleaned off where the glaze was in an undesired area. I later touched up around the girl and the upper rim of the bowl because the crystals had moved down earlier. I wanted it uniform. Once the blue glaze was dry I began to glaze the bowl and then the girl. She was done with 3 layers of a Duncan CN glaze. The last was her hair. I go very slowly so that I don't drip this black glaze on her body. I actually meant to do the hair first which is safer but I forgot. Once the bowl and mermaid were 100% dry it was added to a load and fired. This is one reason I'm not making these any longer. There is always a glaze skip someplace no matter how hard I try and these bowls take up too much space in the kiln. So I scrubbed this area and glazed it again and she fired again. After her second firing I picked up the bowl using the mermaid as a handle. Woops! She came loose. Oh well Nothing was broken I just needed to glue her in place with glaze and to fire her again. The glaze will melt and all will be good. Once she was pressed into place I cleaned up the excess glaze. She went back into the kiln with the next load. When she came out of the third firing all was well. I could also pick her up using the mermaid as a handle. The connection was strong. All the glaze skips were gone and now all I needed to do was to use enamel to paint on her face. 24 hours after painting her face she was baked in the home oven to "set" the enamel. Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/251/5cd0ef3b.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=e435464c0c82febce010b58c78113afa Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/251/5cd0ef2b.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=4ab0fe5eb63f5b7b97724c300cbc7513 Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/251/5cd0ef1b.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=a15b6a97622c23204922d518674de717 When taking photos I like to also take a photo of the bottom. This is when I saw a very long crack. Once I saw it I then could feel it. The bowl is a total loss. It could be that I trapped air when I pressed the mermaid into place with the brown glaze. That would make it crack. Or there was some other stress. I do not know if it cracked after the 2nd or 3rd firing. After the first I glazed the bottom and would have seen it then. It's a mystery. It's been years since I had something crack so I'm fine, only a little bit sad. This is what I am putting in the Bowlarama show. Good thing it doesn't have to be for sale. Cheers, Wendy PS wish Dan luck that his kidney stone cracks up tomorrow, he is having an ultrasound procedure in out patient surgery, some crack ups are good |
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05/07/2019
This is a great thread. |
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05/07/2019
Sorry your bowl cracked. GROG' volcano is probably going to explode. It's OK you're not going to sell it. Dan was probably going to take it anyways. Good luck with the kidney stones, Dan. [ Edited by: GROG 2019-05-07 00:47 ] |
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05/07/2019
Hamo I'm enjoying this thread too. GROG yep it was a big loss. But health is everything and I'd break all that I make if it meant Dan and I stayed healthy. Modern medicine sure gave you a better life. I'm so happy you are back to work on clay. Wendy |
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05/08/2019
Wendy! So sad your bowl didn't make it! But please send to the show... maybe reconsider making available to purchase? It looks amazing! And GROG! Regarding one of your previous posts: "If anything was ever going to blow up in GROG' kiln, it would be this bowl." Even though this is the most hilarious prophecy I've ever heard, please... no more ceramic catastrophes! Fingers crossed it all works out! Speaking of which... sculpting on my first bowl is done! I was going to post an update with photos, but two of the pieces ended up not fitting together quite right, so I had to perform some modifications... and when the clay dried out again... AHHH! There were a few hairline cracks that needed to be addressed! I think I've beaten them into submission (not literally), but now I'm set back a couple days, so no photos yet! |
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05/11/2019
Here are photos of my bowl so far. Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/8879/5cd62f19.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=bf6b1918b5d08dbac4e0925cfdb42e0f Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/8879/5cd62f34.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=4bf6b07c4e6d1eab26283299a2d33ee3 It's based on the menu for Zombie Village in Oakland. Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/8879/5cd62fd6.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=81cfddedd013ab38caea98dd0223d2bd Recently, I was leafing through Sven's Book of Tiki and was once again captivated by the image. I was looking at the fire pit in the center of the illustration and the thought occurred to me that it would make a great fire chamber... in a bowl!!! I was working out the logistics of translating the scene on the menu to a three dimensional, functional piece and I realized the genie in the background would have to be scaled down considerably to make the whole thing viable. I didn't want him to be diminished in size and uniqueness, so I had the crazy idea to make the genie a separate mug that rests in a holder on the back of the bowl. How nutty is that? Sculpting is complete, cracks have been repaired, and now on to underglazing! |
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05/11/2019
Over THE top AWESOME!! |
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05/11/2019
I concur. This thread just gets better and better. |
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05/11/2019
"Here are photos of my bowl so far. Wow! |
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05/11/2019
Yes. Tobunga hs raised the bar----the Tiki Bar. :D |
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05/12/2019
Tobunga I kneel before you. That is just stupendous! Wendy |
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05/12/2019
Wowsers! That is absolutely epic. |
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05/13/2019
GROG did several hours more work on the bowls, but it doesn't look much different. Added more wood detailing and fortified the attachment area between the bowl and the tikis. Put the finshing touches on the Moais. Broke one while GROG was cleaning it, so now it's going to have one less Moai. Yesterday GROG check on the "Volcano" bowl. It was completely covered, so it was drying too slow. So, GROG uncover it and let it sit out for the day, and it dried too fast, so got some big cracks. So, now it's covered again, and let it dry slowly, and fix the cracks with some paper clay when it's dry. [ Edited by: GROG 2019-05-12 17:57 ] |
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05/15/2019
Hey GROG, can you encorporate the cracks into the design of the bowl? They kinda look appropriate, jut add a couple more on purpose! |
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05/15/2019
BOWL ARTIST UPDATE! A few more artists joining the bowl line up: Heather Welch This show is gonna bowl you over! (couldn't resist that bad pun!) |
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05/18/2019
OH NO GROG! Good you can fix it up. I would like to see the steps. Wendy |
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05/22/2019
GROG tell a funny joke and the bowl cracked up! Actually, the bowl was still drying too slow, so GROG just uncovered it and let it crack. It's still solid. GROG can move it around and turn it upside down, it just has big-assed cracks in it. GROG not try to fix the cracks now. GROG going to fire it to see if it explodes or not (definitely gets it's own shelf all to itself). Then GROG try and fix it with paperclay and fire again. GROG figured there would be cracking, since so many of the pieces had different amounts of water, so they would dry at different speeds, but didn't expect this big of cracks. It'll be an interesting test to see if it can be salvaged. Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/5038/5ce4f996.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=10c6c186394c659e96258e72ce04e279 Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/5038/5ce4f97f.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=88cbaebb5f7ae00e92f050203572b531 Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/5038/5ce4f9c0.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=ce6e788fd64480f8db1cf78537e24dff |
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05/22/2019
There's only two. And one of them is never a dick. Can you describe him? |
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05/26/2019
GROG I had paper clay in a plastic sack inside a brown paper bag for the past 9 years. I never figured out what to do with it so recently when I cleaned out my kiln shed I tossed it. Now I wish I'd kept it. I'm looking forward to seeing your repair and how it works out. Wendy |
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05/29/2019
For GROG, Paperclay saves the day, Wendy. GROG was just going to fire the bowl with cracks, and fix it afterwards with paperclay and refire. But, GROG decide to fix the cracks before GROG fire it, and see if, and how much it cracks or explodes once GROG does fire it. GROG was stupid and pushed too hard and broke a hole in the bowl behind a tiki, so GROG had an even bigger fix on the bowl. Didn't take a picture of that, though. This is how it looks now. GROG fire up the kiln next weekend. Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/5038/5cee28b4.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=69b082194360403e94df3b39741d87a5 Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/5038/5cee28a1.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=21f41fbda8277bf1ecf13ad25344f503 |
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05/29/2019
Grog bowl make me thirsty! |