Post #451505 by atomictonytiki on Mon, May 4, 2009 5:41 AM

I finally got my last two mugs back from my ceramics course, what with the college being shut for the Easter holidays. So on my penultimate night at class I decided to quickly make some mugs so I would have something to glaze in my last week. What better mug to make than the two mugs I've coveted but never managed to get hold off.

I'm using a heavily grogged paper clay for speed of building, you really can slap this stuff together.

I really want a Tiki Bob, so when I started my Ersatz Bob I decided not to use any images as reference but to just use my memory and summon the element of the design into this form. I went for an O shaped mouth because of the more tribal appearance it gives, which is fitting with the almost cargo cult style of the mug.

My final mug was a rapidly knocked together thumb pot coconut bowl, as you can see is a cargo cult Trader Vic's aloha coconut mug.

This is them just from the kiln.