Guest Artist: Lori Therault: Wax Resist Techniques

[@CelesteCavanaugh-jb5do]

WOW! You make glazing look easy with your relaxed style and no worry, upbeat attitude❣️ Glazing has always been my least fav pottery task but you make it look as magic! Thanks! Celeste

[@loritheriault3633]

Thanks, Celeste! It took a lot of trial and error, but I love working with glazes and techniques that can bring a group of pots together as a family, while still showing the indivdual uniqueness of each (like a family)!

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

I'm so glad!

[@sherrytimko4912]

Thank you for the demonstration, So awesome, I always admired your designs at VP but never knew how you did it. I sure miss VP, looking forward to a new location in the future and taking more classes!

[@erinbuchanan6489]

Holy smokes!!! THAT WAS AMAZING!!! ♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️ Thank you❣️❣️❣️

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

Glad you liked it!!

[@lolhud]

I see that where ever the waz resist was applied the khaki turned red. Can you tell me why? I'd like to duplicate this but suspect there is some elements of the recipe that I need to get right.

[@anniematheson426]

I was so stunned by the final result, my mouth fell open! Wow! What glazes did you use? May I ask what you said you treated the bisque with before beginning? I have never tried wax resist. I am very excited to try. You are an amazing artist and an inspiration!

[@loritheriault3633]

Thanks so much! My base glaze is Ohata Kaki, and the cover glaze is Clear.

[@monkshillpottery]

Thanks! Same stuff I use. I never get such ‘resist’. I’ll try thicker. ✅

[@kwlloyd7]

Yes, I feel reinspired! Thanks 😊

[@SomayehBasati]

Wonderful! Can we see the final results after firing?

[@itsgabriellawestwood]

It’s at the very end of the

[@itsgabriellawestwood]

Of the video

[@katherinelarsen5591]

Can this be done with brush on clear instead of dipping? They’re beautiful!

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

Give it a try

[@tonyamiller4045]

Hi are you selling these as functional tableware? I am sure they are fired to vitrification but I am under the impression that water and bacteria can still get into unglazed sections over time? I absolutely love the look and hope I'm wrong about the water/bacteria issue? I'm a newbie potter and want to try this!!

[@loritheriault3633]

They are all fully glazed- the plates are dipped in Kaki glaze before the wax resist, so all covered in glaze!

[@marciasilviajohnson6461]

What cone do you fire? Can you share the glazes recipes? 🤗

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

Hi Marcia, Lori is my guest on my channel. Kaki and clear are both common traditional glazes fired to cone 10 reduction.

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

Lori is wonderful!

[@karenotway3078]

Oh khaki glaze! These are amazing. And you just use Clear glaze over top of the khaki and that changes the tone? Beautiful work

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

Yes!

[@noelakelly7235]

Do you wipe the glazes off the bottom before high firing?

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

@@noelakelly7235 yes

[@jeanettesherratt1276]

Hi. I have just watched your dancing brush technique. I found it fascinating. I am a newbie potter. Could you explain what you meant by khaki. Is that a glaze as well as the clear?? I didn’t quite understand. When I saw the result of your tree there is a greenish glaze as well as the clear. Thanks

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

@@jeanettesherratt1276 yes it’s a glaze.

[@andreadumas6680]

Can this also be done with a brush on glaze?

[@nexussever]

You talk about dipping the item in a glaze for the initial glaze- what is the glaze? It sound like you are saying a "tacky glaze" but I don't know what you mean by that. Your "show transcript" is not working for me, so I can't get the info that way. Please educate me. 😄

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

Kaki glaze cone 10 reduction

[@pirro31]

can you tell us how thick or thin your wax is? Sometimes my wax peels right off the first glaze layer... too thick? other times it doesn't seem like the 2nd glaze falls clear from the wax design... too thin? thanks!

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

@@pirro31 I have found wax thickness fit on glazes varies with the wax you are using and the glaze you are putting it on. So, like must things, experiment and keep good notes.

[@DONALDLECLAIR-oe8ln]

Im a little confused - the khaki glaze was over the entire piece but it didn't fire because of the wax? Is the color of the unfired khaki what we're seeing where it was waxed?

[@ingegerdandersson6963]

No if you look at the fired pieces you se that there are glace in the pattern as well. She used Kaki over the whole piece. Then she put wax on in a pattern and dip it in another glace. The wax protect so the pattern doesn’t get the new glace , only the first (Kaki). At least that what I understand. The wax doesn’t protect from fireing it protect from getting the glace on. She shows that she remove som drops of the second glace on the wax but leave some. If she doesn’t remove there will be drops of the new glace in the final result too.

[@monkshillpottery]

What brand wax is that?

[@sarahwellsrolland5097]

Laguna wax

[@gwencalhoun4452]

What is tacky?

[@kwlloyd7]

Khaki?

[@loritheriault3633]

I think you’re referring to kaki glaze- Ohata Kaki specifically

[@karenotway3078]

What is tacky glaze.

[@loritheriault3633]

Kaki glaze, maybe? Ohata kaki.