I truly love your imagination. Yeah - your craftsmanship is a bedrock for creating amazing projects, but to be able to come up with such coherent ideas, revolving around your passion, history, stories and places... That's your magic for me. Being true to yourself and your sensitivity.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Every one of your videos is a masterclass in technique and passion for your craft. Thank you!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU for watching!

Brilliant design. Would love to watch a segment where you dive into tiki mug culture and explain what makes a good mug design for the marketplace or what makes it collection worthy. Is it all about spinning new concepts with historical drinks and designs for example.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t feel right discussing what makes one mug more collectible than another - for myself I make mugs that I’d want to own and that spark a feeling of adventure and excitement for me. I’m forever grateful that other folks like them too!

I love your videos and so look forward to seeing one of the Lil' Ammies on my shelf.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🤙

I LOVE THIS MUG!!!!!! Truly enjoy seeing how they are made. Just awesome

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

The supply issues even stress me out for you! Great video as always! Cannot wait for this mug 🍹

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing in my stress 😂

Such a awesome looking mug! Thank you for sharing your process for joining the pieces together.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing! Thank you for watching!

Thanks for all the tips and tricks and their looking awwwwwwwesome!!!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

love seeing the process in all your videos. I've been using them for reference and it's been so useful, thank you. Keep up the great work!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

Great work, my dude!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Congratulations and love your passion for sharing 😀 definitely next level on this design. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Truly a gorgeous mug! One of my favorites you’ve ever done!!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too!

What an awesome and ambitious design! super impressed with the complexity of Lil Ammy! Minor pedantic note -- it's moisture trapped inside air bubbles that cause kiln explosions, not the air bubble itself. A completely dry air pocket would be perfectly safe to fire because there would be no steam to build up pressure. Air flows through the pore structure in bisque perfectly fine Your slipcasting skill is wildly impressive and these videos are as helpful as they are entertaining. I've watched a ton as I'm trying to make a mold for my glaze test tiles. How did you like the industrial plaster instead of the pottery plaster? Did it behave much differently?

@vantikistudio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!! I’ve seen so much debate on air pockets in ceramic forums and articles. In my experience, any kiln blow ups I’ve had were due to moisture turning to steam in the clay body that wasn’t dried enough. I have fired the Lil ammmy without a small hole in the critter half, and the tests did crack at the seam. I suspect they may make it through a firing if I slowed my bisque down even more. I poke a hole in all my closed forms just to be safe 😄

Masterpiece 👏👏👏

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo!

It's adorable!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I agree 😄

They're so wonderful! Love watching your processes, and watching you learn along the way!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Amazing!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Puka, love it! you both are amazing - so determined!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo!

Love your videos, friend! Could you make a video about how you design, cast, and make the molds for your awesome labels on the bottoms of the mugs?

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Aloha! Thank you for watching! The making of the bases is the one step of the process I like to keep mysterious 😁

Inspired! Inspirational! Thank you!!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

This is my first Tiki Technical Tuesday and I love it! Thank you!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

welcome to the party! Be sure and tell your friends!

I have been looking forward to this, as I do for each of your Tiki Technical Tuesday vids! It is looking awesome! Can't wait for the next installment! Thanks so much! Lisa

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU for watching! It was very exciting to pull the first castings. Can’t wait to get them glazed!

Success! He looks great. I'm looking forward to seeing the glaze tests!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been glazing all week - can’t wait to peek in the kiln! 🤞

As always a master class on mug making, hope to add this beauty to my collection.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo!

great job!!

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Another hypnotic episode! I cannot wait for these to be available. Looking forward to seeing how the glazes will turn out! Excellent work!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Today I begin figuring out glazes 🤞

It's so cool watching the mastery happen. You were doing really advanced work when I started watching a while ago, you're doing even more amazing stuff currently, and I can only start to imagine the level of cool things you'll be doing 10 years from now and beyond!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! As long as I’m still able to live off my art 10 years from now I’ll be a happy clam 😄

I guess I’ve been learning from your wonderful videos because I found myself saying... doesn’t he need to vent the head?!? And I’ve never done any ceramics myself... yet! Just bought a kiln, so excited!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the kiln purchase!!

@janinebulnes2667

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the obsession!

Thanks for another excellent video! This design is probably my favorite so far of the bunch (which is saying something). Such a fun little character! Question about joining the pieces together with the slip. Does this create a weak point in mug? Or is that not a concern after firing? Love your designs and your channel! Cheers.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Good question!! I’ve used this assembly technique on several mugs in the past (the lava lamp themed Volcanic Vapors mug being the most recent) and the bond is extremely strong. Consider that I’m joining the pieces together with the same material that they are made of, and once fired it all fuses together into a singe body.

Fantastic video. Taught me a lot about multi part plaster molds. The question I have always had is there any way to use silicone molds to cast slip or porcelain liquid? Not plaster. I understand how a porous mold takes in the water to form the walls of a ceramic part but there just must be some other way do use a flexible mold to take fireable clay pieces out of

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

I wish there was a way. Believe me, if I could cast ceramic into silicone molds I’d be doing it! Sadly the silicone is a barrier to the thing you have to get out of the clay prior to de-molding: water

I realize that you are the Alton brown of tiki making.

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thank you

These videos are always great! Random question, how much evaporation does your casting tank experience? How often do you add water/check specific gravity of the slip?

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Good question!! I get very little evaporation , as I keep the tank covered whenever I’m not casting. When beginning a round of casting, I balance the slip, and usually go through slip so fast I don’t bother rebalancing until I mix in the next dry batch.

I looove your videos I'm learning so much!! I was stressed when I saw you only dipping in slip to join the two parts because it was drilled in my head to score heavily first. Are you worried about them coming apart at all? especially in the greenware stage

@vantikistudio

7 ай бұрын

I too learned to score than apply slip - but that was for slab hand building. Some of the slipcasting artists I follow told me scoring isn’t necessarily for cast pieces, and after doing a bunch of tests I found out they joints held great without scoring

Amazing video, as always! I always appreciate learning your approach and your tips! You can’t get USG No. 1 anymore??? Gosh that’s frustrating. So glad the new plaster is working out for you- guess I’ll have to see if anyone around me can supply it for my next round of molds. Also, if you fire slowly, you can successfully fire air pockets in the kiln without anything blowing up or warping. Air bubbles generally blow up because the air inside them contains moisture. If the mug is completely dry and fired slowly, gas can actually pass through the clay wall. There are organics and other materials that off gas inside our clay bodies, after all! Although putting a tiny hole often isn’t too aesthetically devastating, and firing air pockets can slow down production for some makers, so it makes sense why most people opt for the hole.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

True about the air pockets! I remember reading an article on that very subject with great suspicion, but yes - they can be fired! The main reason I add a hole is to normalize the air pressure in the small critter cavity while the piece is air drying. I’ve found that the heat from my hands, or the temperature swing in the studio can cause the air trapped in the cavity to expand or contact. This slightly distorts the casting, and the little hole keeps it from happening. A few years back I did a bowl project with a large closed chamber, and forgot to poke a hole in a handful of the castings before firing. A couple made it through just fine, but most cracked.

@____Ann____

2 жыл бұрын

When the work is still drying it can deform without an air hole but if your clay is dry, firing pieces without a hole are absolutely fine. I wouldn't fire them on a fast ramp but 60°c/hour is fine. No cracks in the bisque fire nor in the glaze firing at cone 6.

@StoneAndersonStudio

2 жыл бұрын

@@____Ann____ definitely. I have more problems with things cracking while drying if they don’t have an air hole than I do with firing them!

damn good... maybe an offtopic question, when the "last" episode of Fireball Island will come out?

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Great question! I had to put Fireball on the back burner for a bit to make room for studio work, and to bring in more "fun money" to put towards the paint and wood I'll be needing to finish the game. I haven't forgotten it - and hope to get back onto the build next month.

Please can you tell me how to get the same setup as you do ? How much did it cost ? Do you teach or do you have a course or an ebook? I’m really interested

@vantikistudio

Жыл бұрын

Are you talking about my studio setup? If so, I give a studio tour in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2qIs7OBdLfRYbw.html And if it’s my slipcasting setup, I talk about that here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lqGembqif8eXe5c.html And here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKiJmNV7dJzYj6w.html

soooo add pottery plaster to the list of pottery myths?

@vantikistudio

Жыл бұрын

Uh oh! What is the myth?

Why do you destroy your molds?

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

To maintain the integrity of the edition. Just like printmakers destroy the plates after completing an edition. If I promise collectors that there are only X number of mugs cast, having the mold means I (or someone in the future) could always make more.