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Art Swap 2024 Witco!
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MadDogMike
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Sat, Jun 29, 2024 6:16 PM
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Great inspiration Hamo! Brushed a bit of black underglaze on my fountain, wiped some of it off, and a bit of light sanding. Could go in the kiln as early as this evening. |
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GROG
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Sat, Jun 29, 2024 7:19 PM
GROG give thumbs up, if GROG had opposable thumbs. |
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MadDogMike
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Sun, Jun 30, 2024 9:30 AM
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LOL GROG! Out of the kiln without incident! I have a few finish options that I've come up with. What do you think? #1 Unglazed on the outside. I like the look of old, aged wood. Then just glaze the inside to make it food safe. #2 Glazed on the outside. This is wet with water, actual glaze would be glossier. #3 Glazed only in the bowls to look like they are wet. Again, real glaze will be more glossy. #4 Bowls glazed blue to represent water |
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Sun, Jun 30, 2024 9:37 AM
GROG vote for #3 Glazed only in the bowls to look like they are wet. BUt, GROG not opposed to glazing the whole thing to make it darker and bring out the contrast. You could thin out your glaze so it's not TOTALLY glossy, but I'd do test samples first to determine how thin to make your glaze. |
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MadDogMike
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Sun, Jun 30, 2024 10:24 AM
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MadDogMike too impatient to do test tiles LOL I have not tried that watering down technique. I may need to actually do some test tiles. I had a clear satin glaze but wasn't too happy with it. It tended to fire milky in places. Thanks GROG |
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swizzle
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Mon, Jul 1, 2024 3:34 AM
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Is that low or high fire Mike? |
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danlovestikis
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Mon, Jul 1, 2024 7:38 AM
hang10tiki 7/21/24 is 20 days away!!! MadDogMike that's beautiful as is. Hamo and Swizzle love seeing your names pop up. Time to reveal some more step by steps on my Witco Fountain painting. I did four layers and then highlighted the curve. While painting a show on Pompeii was on. They uncovered a painting. The Pompeii had a piece that reminded me of parts of the Witco I was painting.
The first painting of Pizza ever found in antiquity.
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MadDogMike
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Mon, Jul 1, 2024 8:15 AM
Swizzle it's a high fire clay fire at ^04. [ Edited by MadDogMike on 2024-07-01 08:15:33 ] |
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MadDogMike
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Mon, Jul 1, 2024 8:30 AM
It's July 1st, 21 more days! Here's our lineup as of now So we have 9 potentials, that's a decent start Joshua Bell will not be joining us this year and I hear rumors that Cy will not either, both have other things going on in their lives. I have reached out to some of the others via FaceBook, we'll see if I hear from them [ Edited by MadDogMike on 2024-07-01 08:30:53 ] [ Edited by MadDogMike on 2024-07-01 08:48:28 ] |
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hang10tiki
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Mon, Jul 1, 2024 6:51 PM
Mad Dog #3 Wendy- go go go I’ll update soon. I hope |
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swizzle
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Tue, Jul 2, 2024 1:04 AM
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Not quite sure what you mean by highfire ^04 (earthenware or stoneware?), but the reason why i asked is because there's a particular glaze that is designed to pool in the bottom of bowls which from memory cracks but looks like water and would be perfect for your design. I just can't remember who makes it or what cone it fires to. |
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MadDogMike
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Tue, Jul 2, 2024 7:15 AM
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Hmmmm.. I know there are crackle glazes, I wonder if that's it? It's a high fire clay but it's low fired (I haven't had any problems with that technique) I wanted to use brown clay for this project but couldn't find any lowfire brown. Well, I'm done! |
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danlovestikis
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Tue, Jul 2, 2024 8:28 AM
MadDogMike that's a wonderful work of tiki art. Super cool. |
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danlovestikis
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Tue, Jul 2, 2024 9:04 AM
I have finished my piece. Title: Witco on Edge. The stars actually sparkle as you walk across the room looking at the painting. I put more steps on my "other crafts" page but this is enough for here. Taken with a flash.
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Or Got Rum?
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Tue, Jul 2, 2024 12:03 PM
Excellent Work Mike and Wendy...Bravo. I'm on the home stretch of my version of what an early 60's Witco ad could have looked like. |
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hang10tiki
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Thu, Jul 4, 2024 12:18 AM
Wow Great minds think alike Good job you two |
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danlovestikis
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Thu, Jul 4, 2024 9:53 PM
Or Got Rum? An early 60's Witco ad sounds really intriguing. hang10tiki thank you for thinking we have great minds! I tweaked the painting. I noticed I was missing the design on the bottom left when looking at MadDogMike's mug. [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2024-07-04 21:53:49 ] |
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TikiAno
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Fri, Jul 5, 2024 5:23 PM
Alohaaaaa. Okay I'm late- after Mad Dog and Wendy reaching out but would love to join in. Years ago I had found an almost instructional brochure re: Witco chainsaw carving and thought I had saved it on a computer. It was probably three or four computers ago and looks like i'm up a certain creek without a paddle. Anthony, I love the bat sculpt, Mad Dog & Wendy, fantastic work as always! I'm torn a few different ways but work is slow this week so I may do some test work to see which direction I will go. Unfortunately no more kiln access- or time- to work in clay. It might be time to get a chainsaw to approach this correctly- or it might just help me learn how to juggle. (Original Calvin & Hobbes cartoon below to "get" this reference). Look forward to seeing all of the other entries (and mine as well)! [ Edited by TikiAno on 2024-07-05 17:25:05 ] |
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MadDogMike
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Fri, Jul 5, 2024 6:56 PM
danlovestikis I am so glad you fixed that error, it was bugging me but I didn't know how to tell you. Just kidding LOL I hadn't noticed :D Go TikiAno, Go! |
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Or Got Rum?
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Sat, Jul 6, 2024 12:08 PM
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Yes, It's in my mind what an ad would have looked like. |