Post #689166 by danlovestikis on Wed, Aug 7, 2013 2:06 PM

MadDogMike it is unbelievable to me that you suggest photos when it is cloudy and a storm rolled in today. I was also able to buy the replacement bulbs for the photographic studio today at Home Depot.

GROG I swear I've tried it everyway possible. But today with clouds in my dark shed it worked best.

hang10tiki 250 pages! What do I win??? No actually I wasn't paying attention and I should have. So here's the deal if I bring you a prize at Oasis do you agree to wear it for at least one day no matter what it looks like?

TikiAno Dan said he was thinking that the backside check should be mandatory.

I am so happy that that some of my ideas are useful information for my readers. Swizzle wrote to me last night that he's using my spike method for glazing.

Oh and I forgot to mention that the glaze didn't skip where I had cleaned grass stains off the butt.

I will try to get a photo of us with the mug soon. I'm glad you like the painting here are more photos from today.

Cloudy outside on my table.

Inside my dark shed.

Closeup.

Closeup.

We went to Alpha Fired Arts and Dan found a friend who while not the most interesting man in the world is still interesting to us. Actual size reproduction from Xeon.

Back from Alpha I needed to do some glaze tests for some new glaze colors.

I went there to find silver for the badge on this Detective mug for our friend Frank.

I lucked out. I went to get a silver glaze I'd run out of and found a brand new glaze that I thought would look even better.

The lettering is in black and will show up fine after firing. The silver glaze will sparkle.

I loaded the kiln and fired last night.

I will open it tomorrow.

The crawl mug is two tall for two layers so I'll have to fire twice as many times.

That's it for today. Thank you for checking in and for your posts, Wendy