Pottery Making: How to Make Vases - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. We are going to talk about vases. Vases are great. Of course, everyone needs a vase to put their flowers in. You can make and decorate them in all sorts of different sizes, shapes. This one tapers at the top and I have my throw rings I left in. I really like how that works especially with the glaze because the glaze pulls and accentuates the throw rings. This is just a pretty shape but it is all white. White seems to match everything. And these two are different. This is still in its greenware state, so it has not been fired. What I did was, after I threw the shape, I put a slip on, a colored slip. And the slip had been colored with mason stains. So I painted the slip on as it was turning on the wheel. I took the paint brush and just painted the slip on. Then I waxed the entire piece. And once I waxed it and it was dry, I took a carving tool and I carved in this design. And then I put some more under glazes in the design area and just wiped off what was left on the round. Because it was waxed, it just came off easily and what was left was the under glaze. So it needs to be fired and hopefully, it is going to be as pretty as I hope it is going to be but you never know with pottery. It can come out of the kiln and look absolutely stunning or it can come out of the kiln and you are just going to want to put it in your trash can. But that is the way it goes. Also, when you throw in a pitcher form or <b>...</b>
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