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Summary: How to use wax and glaze to add decoration and detail to your pottery; learn this and more in this free video arts and crafts lesson taught by a pottery making expert.
Betty Ingham and her husband Ben, retired from education in 2001. They purchased and have fully remodeled and restored a 100 year old Victorian home from top to bottom. They also own a...read more
"Hi I'm Betty Ingham on behalf of Expert Village. After you have waxed the bottom of a platter and sometimes you have to just paint it on cause obviously we couldn't dip that in the electric skillet and we painted the grapes a purple glaze and we painted the leaves a green glazes. What we are going to do is we are going to have to put wax now, wax resist over those because we don't want the desert sand color that is going to be on the rest of our platter to get into this color. Now sometimes I also go ahead and I make some embellishments with my pencil. I did that, that glaze has wax in it or that pencil has wax in it so the glaze would go off of that. "
eHow Article: How to Use Wax & Glaze to Add Detail to your Pottery