Post #688955 by danlovestikis on Tue, Aug 6, 2013 9:30 AM

Professor G thank you. My hope is that my art is worth keeping in collections and that these tikis will still be around when Dan and I are not. I try to choose well the projects that I do. When I
saw the photos of the wooden tiki from the Coral Reef in Sacramento it was an easy choice. What
"grabbed" me were the hands. I'd not seen hands carved in this position before. So now there is a mug to go with the tiki.

hang10tiki you posters keep me going.

Gene S Morgan the color of the mug is the darker color. I need to get some bulbs for the portable photographic studio that MadDogMike gave me so I can do better photos again. I used it so much I burnt them out.

I'm back to experimenting on the Artist Proof mugs.

Here I've taken a coral under-glaze and I'm painting right on top of the glazed mug. Since it is on top I don't have to use the wax. However when I fire this it could all run out of the grooves. That's what I need to find out.

Then I took one of the others and covered it with a glaze that has crystals. So it will make spots all over the mug when I fire it again.

Next up is my painting for the Tiki Oasis 13 show. I can't seem to get a good photo.
The title of the painting is:

Hot Night On Hulabilly Beach
Hahana Po Ma Hulabilly Kahakai

I'm sure the Hawaiian interpretation is full of grammatical errors but at least I tried.

Photos of paintings can be so strange. I look at this one and her eye looks like it has a big black dot. The painting looks just fine. I'm still tweaking it. I had fun having lava flow out of the ground. If it keeps flowing the tiki will go up in flames.

Off to work, cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2013-08-06 09:34 ]