Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9083	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Sat, Aug 3, 2013 2:14 PM hang10tiki that word can never be used too much. GROG is awesome as are you! LoriLovesTiki I've been told that Hale Tiki was just laid off his job. So the story which is to be put on the Ohana page will have to wait until he is up and running again. My heart goes out to you Hale Tiki. Best Wishes always. GROG is such a great guy and good friend. I wanted to bring a smile to his face. Best wishes GROG. MadDogMike my hearing is not so good but Dan told me he heard it but didn't recognize your voice, good thing to told me. I'm so glad you like Zipper Bob, I like your skull art for the cannibal swap. TikiAno isn't it fun to go on vacation and to run into so many people that you know. I love tiki events. I'm looking forward to the art show too. We'll raise a cup to GROG mighty cave man of California. See lots of you soon. Progress Report I opened the kiln. I could see how the different numbers of layers affected the crawl mugs. The skin colored glaze did not cover the smeared black on the faces but the defect in the volcano is now gone. I'll do the faces again. Looks like I missed checking out the hands. The clear glaze worked perfectly. The mug is covered with glaze while leaving the defect showing. I wish I could do it again. Maybe... Outside view and another side view. All the separated areas inside the bowl are now covered with glaze. There are also differences in how thick the glaze is so there is texture. Dan has chosen the lighter brown as his favorite. Front and the backside. The mug has Dan's bottom and I did one mug with his green eyes. I was greatly surprised to see that the wax relief worked perfectly. I hadn't missed waxing any areas so out of the kiln I found no brown glaze interfering with the lettering, eyes, nostrils or mouth. Now I really like the wax. However I can't really spend so much time to do this to all the mugs. Three layers of glaze and then one of the wax took 1.5 hours and I still had to do the inside and outside in brown. I'm going to do a test where I use cold paint in the lettering and leave the front as is which is Dan's preference. With cold paint I only have to do one layer. Thank you for sticking with me through all the ups and downs. Cheers, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2013-08-03 14:44 ]

hang10tiki that word can never be used too much. GROG is awesome as are you!

LoriLovesTiki I've been told that Hale Tiki was just laid off his job. So the story which is to be put on the Ohana page will have to wait until he is up and running again. My heart goes out to you Hale Tiki. Best Wishes always.

GROG is such a great guy and good friend. I wanted to bring a smile to his face. Best wishes GROG.

MadDogMike my hearing is not so good but Dan told me he heard it but didn't recognize your voice, good thing to told me. I'm so glad you like Zipper Bob, I like your skull art for the cannibal swap.

TikiAno isn't it fun to go on vacation and to run into so many people that you know. I love tiki events. I'm looking forward to the art show too.

We'll raise a cup to GROG mighty cave man of California. See lots of you soon.

Progress Report

I opened the kiln.

I could see how the different numbers of layers affected the crawl mugs.

The skin colored glaze did not cover the smeared black on the faces

but the defect in the volcano is now gone. I'll do the faces again. Looks like I missed checking out the hands.

The clear glaze worked perfectly. The mug is covered with glaze while leaving the defect showing. I wish I could do it again. Maybe...

Outside view

and another side view.

All the separated areas inside the bowl are now covered with glaze.

There are also differences in how thick the glaze is so there is texture.

Dan has chosen the lighter brown as his favorite. Front

and the backside.

The mug has Dan's bottom and I did one mug with his green eyes.

I was greatly surprised to see that the wax relief worked perfectly. I hadn't missed waxing any areas so out of the kiln I found no brown glaze interfering with the lettering, eyes, nostrils or mouth. Now I really like the wax. However I can't really spend so much time to do this to all the mugs. Three layers of glaze and then one of the wax took 1.5 hours and I still had to do the inside and outside in brown.

I'm going to do a test where I use cold paint in the lettering and leave the front as is which is Dan's preference. With cold paint I only have to do one layer.

Thank you for sticking with me through all the ups and downs. Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2013-08-03 14:44 ]

Post #688537 by danlovestikis on Sat, Aug 3, 2013 2:14 PM