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Hale Tiki
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Joined: Oct 19, 2004
Posts: 1607
From: Pittsburgh
|  Posted: 2013-05-02 12:25 pm Permalink
lookin good man! still haven't used my bowl from you yet, but I will when I get my bar up!
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Trader Tom
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Joined: Jan 26, 2006
Posts: 751
From: Hillsboro, OR
| Posted: 2013-05-09 7:04 pm Permalink
Just got back from the kiln and I got my first 11 pieces done in time for the Hale Pele show this Saturday.
Several in Mystic Blue.
A few skull mugs in various glazes.
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swizzle
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Joined: Jun 03, 2007
Posts: 648
From: Melbourne,Australia
| Posted: 2013-05-09 8:49 pm Permalink
That mystic blue is a great colour, the Moai's look fantastic.
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Trader Tom
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Joined: Jan 26, 2006
Posts: 751
From: Hillsboro, OR
| Posted: 2013-05-10 3:29 pm Permalink
Thanks. I feel like I finally have the mystic blue perfected. The label says to give three coats, but three coats was a little gloppy when fired and it started to run. Two coats allows a bit more brown through and isn't gloppy at all.
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MadDogMike
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Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6490
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2013-05-10 5:55 pm Permalink
Tom, have a great time at the show ~ hope you sell it all!
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 263
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-10 8:34 pm Permalink
That Mystic Blue is a great color ... really makes the detail jump ... Nice mugs ...
[ This Message was edited by: Gene S Morgan 2013-05-10 20:35 ]
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Trader Tom
Grand Member (5 years)
Joined: Jan 26, 2006
Posts: 751
From: Hillsboro, OR
| Posted: 2013-05-17 01:50 am Permalink
I picked up the last four pieces from the kiln which I showed earlier before they were fired.
Three of them were glazed in Mystic Blue and are similar to other ones I've shown, but I thought I would share a picture of how the nude pin-up ashtray turned out.
I used a "Rust" matte glaze for the rocks and a wipe-away "Mahogany" on the pin-up. The water is "Mystic Blue" and it really pops out from the other matte glazes. When you see it in person with the reflection off the blue, it looks even better than the photo. Measures 9" square and the nude is about 4.5" long.
I will definitely make some more of these. I may do a "Pele" version with matte black rocks and a bunch of flowing lava rivers springing forth from a reddish-colored nude at the top and pooling into a red/yellow/orange swirl below.
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Trader Tom
Grand Member (5 years)
Joined: Jan 26, 2006
Posts: 751
From: Hillsboro, OR
| Posted: 10 days ago; 12:46 am Permalink
I have some more pictures to share. First up are a couple of wipe-away skull mugs with colored interiors and a black satin lava flow glazed skull mug someone asked me to do on commission.
Then, I have a couple of unglazed bisque Duncan Stacker Mugs. I picked up the mold for these recently and they are really cool. I see them from time to time, but I think I will do a wipe away on them without clear coat. The clear coat tends to diminish the color of the wipe away. I'll use a colored gloss glaze on the insides, however.
Next, is a father/son project Joseph and I worked on recently. For you SpongeBob fans out there, I present the dreaded Plankton! Joseph did the body, but I suggested putting it on a plaque since it looked so fragile and I was sure it would crumble in the kiln. We'll probably use the green glaze seen in the interior of one of the skull mugs above for this one after next week when his school lets out for the summer. Maybe the wipe away blue on the plaque...depends on how crazy he get with the green glaze, though.
I expect to finish the ten or so bisque pieces sitting on the shelf over the next couple of weeks and will put up one more big post for the summer, but then I will need to take a short break from mudslinging for a while. I have some ink slinging to do with three or four writing projects I want to complete.
Thanks again for looking!
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MadDogMike
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Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6490
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 10 days ago; 08:05 am Permalink
Gorgeous! Keep that boy's fingers in the mud, it looks like he's having a good time.
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Hale Tiki
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Joined: Oct 19, 2004
Posts: 1607
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 8 days ago; 07:40 am Permalink
Dig the drip, man.
I need to make positives from my unused mold for people. Get more of those little stackers out there!
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