These Are Tricky to Glaze!

I don’t always glaze the exterior first but I’ve gotten into the habit of doing so with this particular glaze as it’s so fragile once glazed. You’ll notice as I pull the form out of the glaze I have to grasp it by the rim, something that if I were to do when the interior was glazed, it could damage that section as it’s yanked out. Hence why I do the outside first, and then swirl it around the interiorly carefully, letting it pour out over the lip. In theory, I could wax the outside portion just beneath the rim, this way the glaze wouldn’t peel over quite so much, but in the past when I’ve waxed this particular glaze it ended up leaving traces of where it once was. Perhaps it was simply a fluke, a one-off, but it was enough to cause me to never attempt it again, plus, layering wax over such a powdery-fluffed up layer of glaze is difficult enough in itself. All of that leads to this rather convoluted process but it gets the job done and leaves me, hopefully, with a particularly uniform finish. #satisfying #asmr #pottery #ceramics #glaze #bowl #crafts