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Babalu
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: Nov 19, 2006
Posts: 2498
From: Lemon Grove
|  Posted: 2008-08-30 06:09 am Permalink
YAY Cass!! It's so cool to see all this killer clay work happening on TC lately. Your new mug looks like a winner! I would love to visit the Muntiki studios sometime, those guys do some AMAZING things there! Have fun experimenting with the matt glazes...there is just soooo many different pre-made flavors on the market to choose from these days, it's a bit overwhelming. I need to start making a shit load of test trees.
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TravelingJones
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Joined: Mar 11, 2006
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From: Eastern Shores of Western Civilization
| Posted: 2008-09-27 1:35 pm Permalink
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OceaOtica
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Sep 29, 2003
Posts: 869
From: la, home of Tiki Ti
| Posted: 2008-10-15 1:34 pm Permalink
droppin in for a quick update, will probably be absent from the forum for a while. been fitting some handmade experiments in the mix as i can. they are dry, will probably go into the kiln by the weekend. Going with some rough textures. Hopefully they make it outa the kiln okay. Will post pics of the Asaro Mudmen Mask Mugs later, have some handmade and cast/handbuilt ones in various stages.
Skullitiva, a real gone primitive crude pinch pot rendition of a skull, reservoir around lip of rim to light up with 151
pinch pot Marq for glaze testing on this texture
pretty large handmade double Marq
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LOL Tiki
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Joined: Sep 06, 2007
Posts: 932
From: San Diegoish
| Posted: 2008-10-15 2:43 pm Permalink
Diggin' those Marqs! Good job!
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Tiki Kaimuki
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Joined: Sep 25, 2006
Posts: 815
From: OAKLAND, baby
| Posted: 2008-10-15 5:59 pm Permalink
Love the new work. I've been wondering what you've been up to. Looks like a lot!
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tikiracer
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Joined: Sep 09, 2005
Posts: 462
From: UK
| Posted: 2008-10-16 12:26 pm Permalink
Those marq mugs are beauty. They should be living under century old jungle creeps...
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The Sperm Whale
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Joined: Aug 23, 2004
Posts: 1538
From: Lakewood California
| Posted: 2008-10-16 1:14 pm Permalink
I love looking at your work. Thank you for sharing.
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Babalu
Grand Member (5 years)
Joined: Nov 19, 2006
Posts: 2498
From: Lemon Grove
| Posted: 2008-10-17 10:36 pm Permalink
Cass, It's really cool seeing you hand building. The Marq is my favorite of the two as well. Love the texture! Let's get together soon. I might be hosting the Chop in Nov...think you might be a go? We need to kick it together for a minute.
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Hiphipahula
Grand Member (7 years)
Joined: May 27, 2006
Posts: 2394
From: The Valley! Female, leo,fav color pink.
| Posted: 2008-10-21 01:05 am Permalink
Great work Cass as always... gotta get together soon!
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OceaOtica
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Sep 29, 2003
Posts: 869
From: la, home of Tiki Ti
| Posted: 2008-10-29 11:14 am Permalink
here are the first cast/handbuilt Asaro mudmen mugs. they are dry and ready to go to the kiln. the third one i have done, not shown, still needs to dry a few more days before i do the finish work, but it has the boars tusks and teeth. hope you dig. i love making these. will do variations on the same masks. coloration will be based on the few colors i have seen in photos of the masks, i assume mainly based on the earth they use to build them. Also will make some from some other regions.
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MadDogMike
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Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6489
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2008-10-29 3:36 pm Permalink
Lookin' cool! What it the clay body on the Marquesan mugs? Looks like it has dark & light bits like granite? I've been playing with porcelain tusks for an upcoming Wild Boar mug, hope yours work out for you 
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Tiki Kaimuki
Grand Member (4 years)
Joined: Sep 25, 2006
Posts: 815
From: OAKLAND, baby
| Posted: 2008-10-30 5:55 pm Permalink
You got a nice png posse going on! What's hiding in the background there?
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Babalu
Grand Member (5 years)
Joined: Nov 19, 2006
Posts: 2498
From: Lemon Grove
| Posted: 2008-10-31 07:38 am Permalink
These guys are just plain awesome Cass!
The texture is "right on" with these guys! Can't wait to see how you approach the glazing.
Hopefully, you can make it down for the Chop. It would be great fun to kick it in the studio with you for a day.
Keep cranking them out brother!
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OceaOtica
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Sep 29, 2003
Posts: 869
From: la, home of Tiki Ti
| Posted: 2008-10-31 2:51 pm Permalink
Thanks everyone for the kind words. Mad D, you had it figured out before i messaged you. Kaimuki, the background is a unglazed handbuilt Asaro mudman, the two glazed pieces are the handbuilt glazed skullitiva and double marq bowl seen on top of the page in greenware. Babs, hope to make it to your place in November. Really want to pick your brain about the process of rolling out and pinching those tumblers and odder shaped mugs. I really dig making the mudmen not only for the handbuilding on cast pieces, but also because i do a lot of add on texturing when the greenware is leather hard. Seems to capture the muddy textury surface that the actual masks have pretty well, though no reference picture i have found shows the masks close enough to really see the surface that well. Also gives and effect that sculpting alone does not produce well. We will see what happens, these go in the kiln hopefully tonight. I was a little impatient in the drying process, and had some surface cracking. we will see if my repair and retexturing fixed that issue after they come out of the kiln. Glaze wise, not really going crazy here, sticking more with the colors and look of the masks. Neat colors though, white with hints of blue and grey, a cobalt blue (what some PNG artisans paint the Asaro mudmen mud figurines), a slightly ochre yellow, and a sepia red. the fun will be doing work ups with the glazes themselves in stead of underglaze.
Alright, Happy Halloween, i am gonna get back to watching Hammer films and working on some new Vintage Beauty Monsters. Thanks again for checking out my clay makins.
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Tiki Diablo
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Joined: Jun 24, 2002
Posts: 1896
From: socal
| Posted: 2008-10-31 11:02 pm Permalink
HoT PINK BABy!
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