Post #380604 by VanTiki on Thu, May 15, 2008 6:41 PM

Mahalo teakey. Yep - wanted to give them an under-bite and a bit of depth with the teeth, so I made some "gums" - stuck in the teeth, and then built the face planes over that with slabs. Looked terrible at first (with just the gums) and they almost ended up in the Trash Can Of Failure.

OK - yet another update (you can tell it is a studio week for me!). Just laded up the kiln for a cone 5 glaze firing.

First floor: Tiles.

The two in the center will (fingers crossed) be gloss black - they will be pained with gold after firing and jump right back into the kiln for a nice gloss gold finish (if all goes well - which is rather rare around here). You can also see a few of my clay tiki-coins (discussed on my tile thread).

Second Floor: Creature From The Depths

Oh man. Got a bad feeling about these guys. I am really worried about the glaze on the inside - it may drip. I HATE GLAZING! Whew. Ok. Had to vent. They'll make a nice conversation piece if the interior glaze fails and you can't drink out of them.

Babalu - a HUGE thanks for the grog/sand hint. Worked like a charm on the Mug of the Monkey God and the Mug of the Vampire Bat. Speaking of which, here is a scale photo of the bisqued pieces:

Yessir - quite hefty!

Mahalo for peeking!

Henrik "will chew off all his fingernails this afternoon while the kiln is going" VanTiki