How to use WAX RESIST on your POTTERY (part 1)
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- This is a introduction to wax resist and how to use it with glazing.
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The only complaint I have with your videos is they are more addictive then chocolate and keep me laughing. God love you😍😘and keep um coming.
you're sense of humor is so refreshing!!! I can't believe how many times I've laughed out loud.
Please keep talking! Your teaching a lot of info. I like your instruction. Thankyou for sharing !
You can also use wax on joins if you need them to dry slower. For instance if you live in a hot, dry area your pots may dry too fast and crack.
Hallelujah! I love having naked clay on show too!
I wanted to add a couple of things -
- just as the glaze on the pot has dried the stuff left on the wax should still be wet, if you wipe with a damp sponge at this point it's really easy to take off
- at some point you will drip wax on your piece!
- to get it off you need to let it dry, scrape with a knife, attack with a heat gun then sand it.
- alternatively just bisque it again!
- it gives off a lot of fumes in the kiln when burning off - so if you don't have to use it - don't!
- a nice alternative to using wax for the foot is to get a basin, or even the table top, create a very shallow pool of water (half the height of you foot) and stand the piece in it for a short while before glazing. The saturated bisque will take on less glaze and be way easier to wipe off. Also if it absorbs beyond the foot onto the pot a little it will cause a glaze gradient and help manage runnier glazes.
A lazy Suzan! Genius!! I love how that is flat. Thank you.
Thank you for making this video, it's the only one I found that has actually helped me.
Great video, Dante. I only learned about wax resists three days ago. I will try it next week.
I really like the one with the wax resist on the side. Thanks!
As to making peace with losing stuff in the firing - I make pieces. I have been experimenting with primitive clay and firing methods and break up my flops with a hammer and fill the potholes in my driveway. Now they are real POTholes!
Thanks for making the process of learning pottery so much fun! Your teaching method rocks, you are as addicting as the clay itself. Keep 'em comin"
that was cool I learn so much by this thanks Randy for getting Donte to show this 👍😊
First time watching your videos....ha your fun and thank you for sharing!!
I like to touch the raw clay the texture is great. wash g the brushes with soapy water helps but it dose ruin brushes. When using carbon trap shino glazes I like to put wax on top of the glaze to create great contrasts.
You are hilarious! I love your content, I’m a fan!
thanks a lot for your video !! , i have an idea to use wax resit, said to me if you agree first sorry for my english , so i think wax burn about 200 °c or 392 Fahrenheit, my idea is to test an apply on a piece of biskit pottry a plane layer of wax resit first an dry of course , after that use a cheap laser like ortur laser master 20w to draw a nice picture ( laser burn up the wax ) and after that you glaze all , and just the cool picture graving by laser are glazing and after that you go to the kiln , what do you think about ??
Just a little tip from my own experiences - when in a pinch (or too lazy to order another bottle of wax resist) I have found that Elmer's School Glue works in most applications. Shellac also works amazingly but smells awful when burning out.
i'd imagine rubbing Beewax on it in that spot would work as well? (haven't tested)
Thank you so much 😊 you have helped me immensely 😊
Even your earlier videos are awesome!
you are the best! Thanx a lot for all your videos!
Thank you for this demo! Excellent information!
Thanks that’s amazing
I add a lot of my pottery in the garden as water containers or seed containers or used for plants this is where my failures go
Ohhh boy, my teacher did not told me much about waxing. He basically just told me to put it on my project where u did not want the glazed, wish is true, but me been a beginning I end up putting to much in several places and did not told me how hard it was to take it out.
hallelujah!
First off, I have found that I have not had issues with glaze clumping together with wax if you let it dry for 6 hours or more. Most of the time I wing it just because it takes so long, but that's what it is.
Second, if I ever get wax drops on my pot I don't want and it's on bisqueware, I just hold the open flame from my lighter up to it and it's ready to be glazed.
Thirdly, have you done a video on design? I'd be curious as to what your thoughts are regarding the elements and principles of design.
+Adge Pipkin I usually save those types of videos for the intermediate to advanced ( of which there is only one advances video right now) but it does go over some basic design rules.
"...BOOM!!!!! And you've just WAXED YOUR BOTTOM!!!!!" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!
Thanks I have always hated wax resist because I would always end up getting wax where I didn’t want it totally annoying but I’m gonna try using it like this next semester
😱😱😱😱part 1 are you freaking kidding me?????? Now m just hanging in limbo. Pretty sneaky Donte pretty sneaky. Thumbs up.
+Roderick (The Artist) part 2 will be intermediate probably.
Awesome!! Wish I had found you years ago
I do agree with u 100%
good vid!!
u have awesome tip
I use wax resist on leather hard pots to carve into bisque then glaze love the results.
Also would you please do video on staining porcelain?
Fun to watch Thank you.
Love your video, thank you so much!
i love the feeling of the unglazed ceramic
i may or may not rub my finger over the foot of the plate while i eat.....
Love your videos!!!!
you are so funny, love to watch
Thanks for the tips! How long do you have to wait before adding wax onto a first layer of glaze (to resist a second glaze)? I’ve read that it’s best to wait a day but looks like you’ve had luck probably just waiting until the first glaze layer is dry?
hallelujah!
new potters wax resisting: if you're getting a brush, make sure it's relatively inexpensive, wax can tend to ruin brushes over long periods of time.
+Steven Kin super true.
It helps to also dip your brush in soapy water before you dip it in the wax. The soapy water does not effect the wax resist.
I might be a ceramophile facial expression was actual comedy. Nice.
Question! If I use a non food safe glaze first, then coat that with a good safe glaze, is the piece then food safe?
Gatta test the combo. Always
You would have to send it out to a Testing lab. So probably not as the chemicals move around in the kiln. Lead can come out into the air for you to inhale.
bruh..... where you get randy's red??? because i school took it away like 2 years ago and im not having that shit
Do you apply wax resist on the bisque or before firing ?
Why isn't the bottom rim of the cup glazed? I do use wax resist on my designs.
Glaze would make it stick to the kiln shelf
hallelujah!
Oh I do love to touch it!!
Hi, is it possible to make your own wax resist? or just kinda rub a candle on it? Extreme beginner here, so I do not have any experience, just a lot of questions :D
hallelujah 🙌
hey, here's a basic question that no UA-cam teacher I've seen has addressed. maybe you could demonstrate the best way to.. (this is embarrassing) make a ball of clay ready to throw. I spend so long slapping and rolling the slices of bagged clay into a round ball, I'm sure there's a better way without adding air bubbles...
+Jennifer Huss don't be embarrassed Jennifer. We will see what we can do :)
EarthNation Ceramics thanks! keep being dirty.
How come some glazes are ok with 1 dip and others require 3 dips? Is it in the recipe?
What wax resist are you using. We've been using Forbes and I'm thinking about changing.
Hello there dirty Donte😁(sorry if I didn't spell your name right... actually, maybe not... Cause I am honestly confused for some seemingly logical reason...Till you clarify...) Love your classes as I have been dying to get dirty for many years now, finnaly down in it, give a high I can't explain... but my resources are fairly limited.
Though I am currently working on red clay so far and won't know how long it will take before I get to know everything about it. I still want to learn about the other types of clay bodies that I can look forward to working with. I intend to experiment with the ones available near me but I need some insight. So would you make a video about the different types of clays you know about, experienced and the characteristics of each of them? And maybe, which ones complement each other if brought together to make any particular type of piece?
Just give me some time ;)
@@EarthNationCeramics sure 😁
Hii new to pottery here, thank you for the video! Can wax resistbe used on any type of firing and glaze?
Yes.
It burns off around 500 degrees Fahrenheit anyway and most kiln fires go above that.
Just be careful not to put it in the same day that you put the wax on because it does carry a facet of water and sometimes it will affect your glaze so it's best to let it sit for a couple of days after you apply it.
Vaseline works too.
I wish i could do cool creative stuff like this, i have no patience :(
Do you know if you have to wear a respirator with wax resist? It's says to wear one on the container I have but it seems strange to like it shouldn't really be that bad right?
As someone who would never want any of my subscribers to hurt themselves I would say follow the instructions but as a sane logical person who is still alive and uses wax resist all the time, no, literally none of us wear a mask when using wax resist.
Most of us just use gloves at most
Sad broken peices tis upsetting but we will survive (hallelujah)
Hallelujah!
Can I use melted bees wax in the same manner? Thanks
I've heard that it works but I've never tried it.
The wax that Potters uses usually mixed in with water to make it more fluid and I imagine you would have to do that with beeswax unless you're constantly keeping it warmed up.
I've never tried it but if you do please let me know how it goes
May I ask where part two is ?
ua-cam.com/video/b6i4YgDqn38/v-deo.html
Hallelujah Brother!
I think I might be a ceramifile (did I spell that correctly?!)
I'm not that experienced with wax resist, but I think that most important thing when using it is common sense. Well common sence is crucial whenever you do something. So to sum up this vid - I agree with you theories on wax resist ;)
Another way to glaze your pottery is "The wife method". I have a wife and this techniquelooks like: WIFE! HONEY! Could you help me please! I really need you right now! :D
By the way are you up for a challenge, Dante?
+Yano lol! I don't have a wife.... O... I made myself sad....
+EearthNation Ceramics (to be honest I'm married for a month 😂 )
So do you accept challenges? ;)
Yano I do. But it very much depends on the challange . likenim not gonna make an dragon out of clay or if I don't have the kiln to do it. Its gatta be within my range of equipment.
As I wrote before - common sence it the point ;) I won't ask you to make gold out of poo, don't worry.
I was wondering how would you perform when not dealing with your prefered form. There is a particular ancient pottery culture I like. It is called Linear Pottery culture (Linear Pottery culture). This is my impression of it made of coils (of course): facebook.com/sambukowegarnki/photos/a.656834061134975.1073741828.656825791135802/670764916408556/?type=3&theater
The piece on the picture is about 3,5 litres ( 118.35 flz oz)
I challenge you to throw something like this on the wheel. You can use whatever technique/clay/glaze/underglaze you want ofcourse. If you do it I will send my favourite glaze to you from Poland (1 lb in powder form, food safe according to the EU and after checking US customs for any restrictions)
My written english is even worse than my spoken english ;)
Yano o hell yeah, that looks like my first year work. Ima make a new playlist just for challanges.
Challenge accepted.
halleluiah. The tao of pottery.
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujahhhhhhhh ............oh my God so funny - genius, talented and hilarious - good looking chap with wit AND a genius tutorial - Life has just got a whole lot better - thaaaaaaaaaaaank yoooooooooooooooo x ................... Im off to feel up some cups
Also loss :( :(
10:25 😂❤️
Get to the bottom ! too much action is not good idea!