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VanTiki Mugs: ShelfTiki #1l! 12/5 |
Babalu
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From: Lemon Grove
|  Posted: 2009-01-14 07:16 am Permalink
Holy Crab Shacks!! Your on fire Henrik! I'm soooo happy your back playing in the studio! I love, love these progress shots you post. Oh Thank you, Thank you! 
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Clarita
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From: BA Arg
| Posted: 2009-01-14 09:51 am Permalink
Oh I love the gold eater!! super cool!!
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BigToe
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Joined: Nov 07, 2006
Posts: 715
From: Southern California
| Posted: 2009-01-14 11:02 am Permalink
brilliant...that claw is insane. can't wait to see the squid.
no really, hurry up and finish!
MAD alohas, t
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Robb Hamel
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Joined: Mar 07, 2008
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From: Ohio
| Posted: 2009-01-14 11:45 am Permalink
7 pounds! Da-amn! Use a straw.
The claw is too crazy, but very diggable.
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VanTiki
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Joined: Nov 25, 2005
Posts: 907
From: Hawaii
| Posted: 2009-01-14 11:49 am Permalink
Mahalo everyone!
Allow me to introduce the HenrikCrab:
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hewey
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From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2009-01-14 7:02 pm Permalink
Thats insane man! You're not going to be able to ship those puppies soon, they getting BIG
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VanTiki
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Joined: Nov 25, 2005
Posts: 907
From: Hawaii
| Posted: 2009-01-15 11:48 am Permalink
Babalu - I'm Soooooo happy to be playing with the clay again! glad you like the progress shots. I love it so much when other TC artists show their process - so I feel compelled to share as well.
Charita - Mahalo! It is going to be hard to box that one up and send it away. Sigh....
BigToe - I'm happy to say that "Caution: Giant Squid" mug photos are mere sentences away!
Robb - Yeah, it is beefy!
Hewey - Ms. VanTiki shares your shipping concerns. I keep telling myself that I gotta do a few smaller works next, but big is so fun!
OK - on to the new one! I call it "Caution: Giant Squid". Took a bunch of shots as the mug took shape. First off - the sketch. I really enjoyed making those tentacle mugs last year, and I thought I could expand on the idea with a bizarre "wine glass" type of mug - with the stem of the glass being a tentacle and the bowl being a skull.
Fist step was spending an hour or so producing a zillion suckers of various sizes. Did these out of a vivid blue porcelain
Next up I rolled out a hefty slab of the ceramic paper clay. THe clay looks red (the black streaks you see are mold - eew!), but it will be an off white when fired. THe wood strips on the side help me control the thickness of the slab
After a couple of test rolls, I cut a piece of clay pie
And roll it into a big pointy cone!
NOw - the nifty thing about this paper clay stuff is you can attach dry clay to wet clay - that is how I could wrap the wet tentacle around the three-day-dry skull. After a few test fits, I scored and slipped the skull and tentacle together
 
At this point I hit the tentacle with my blowtorch to firm it up. Wanted it to hold its shape without slumping before moving on to the next step. This is another great thing about paper clay - I can force-dry it with almost no worries about cracking (or so I am told). From this point on I added all the details. Texturing the back and "fleshy underside", adding some edging, and sticking all the little suckers in (which had dried out at this point, letting me press them into the wet tentacle without distorting them).
 
And here we have the finished sculpt!
Not quite as cute as my original sketch - but I can always try another!
Mahalo for peeking,
Henrik "VanTiki"
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MadDogMike
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From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2009-01-15 3:08 pm Permalink
Amazing! I gotta get (or make) me some paper clay - what the heck, I already have a blowtorch!
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Babalu
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From: Lemon Grove
| Posted: 2009-01-16 08:22 am Permalink
Dang Sweet! The blue underglaze on those suckers is going to look cool! Like MD, I'm going to have to look up more info on that paper clay - love the way your rolling slabs out with the stuff....looks fun as hell
Your smackin'-um outta the park Henrick!
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Babalu
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From: Lemon Grove
| Posted: 2009-01-16 11:16 am Permalink
Are those blue suckers that colored porcelain stuff?
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VanTiki
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Joined: Nov 25, 2005
Posts: 907
From: Hawaii
| Posted: 2009-01-16 11:27 am Permalink
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On 2009-01-16 11:16, Babalu wrote:
Are those blue suckers that colored porcelain stuff?
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Yessir - this is the stuff I've been using. It is $$ - but as I only use it for highlights I imagine the first batch of color I purchased will last me for years.
http://www.axner.com/axner/claybodies/clay-colored-porcelain.php
Here is the paperclay I've been using - they ship flat rate priority mail! FANTASTIC news for someone who lives on a far off island in the Pacific
http://www.axner.com/axner/claybodies/clay-paperclay.php
Get some and go crazy! It is a bit different than standard clay - the fibers can sometimes get in the way, but I've been enjoying the benefits of the clay too much to complain!
Mahalo,
Henrik
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Tiki Shark Art
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From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2009-01-16 11:34 am Permalink
Vantiki~ WOW!
You are reaching into my dark dreams and pulling out mug designs near and dear to my twisted tormented soul! I will chant praises to the elder sea gods on your behalf!
FANTASTIC!
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Babalu
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Posts: 2498
From: Lemon Grove
| Posted: 2009-01-16 11:41 am Permalink
Sweet! I called my guys here in SD to see if I could have them order 50 lbs of the low fire white "wades" to try, but they said it came out of Ohio....so thanks for the link man.
I also ordered up 100 lbs of that Red Laguna EM-234 cone 06 stuff today....I think it will work better than that whiteware with grog in larger applications.
YAY CLAY!
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MadDogMike
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Posts: 6403
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2009-01-16 11:49 am Permalink
Babalu, that's funny - I called Freeform this morning about paperclay too. Now they're thinking WTF?
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leleliz
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Joined: Sep 02, 2008
Posts: 1981
From: NorCal
| Posted: 2009-01-19 9:29 pm Permalink
so amazing! love seeing progress pics. really blows my mind. Great work on the squid!
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