What is burnished pottery?

what's up guys so today i'm just going to do a voice over um and what i want to go over is just how to burnish your pottery um and what burnishing is so burnishing is pretty much like polishing um you're compacting uh you're compacting your pottery the clay and your pottery so that it gets more like smooth almost like a gloss um and it kind of kind of acts almost like a sealant i think it makes it harder for water to absorb after you fired it and it just gives it a nice look i mean i i really like the feel of it i like the look of it and there's a few different ways you can do it so i've seen some people that wait until they get their clay almost bone dry and then they'll either put water or oil on it and they'll do what i'm doing where they get a stone and rub it across the surface and you can see where i'm pointing at on there it almost looks glossy right there it doesn't look chalky so for that you would use some sort of oil or water um and wet down the surface of wherever you're going to burnish it at and you would rub a smooth stone against it and they say the smoother uh that you want your burnishing the smoother the stone needs to be so if you can find the pretty much the smoother the stone the better you don't want anything really gritty or really coarse and that's why you'll see me using my fingernail in this video because um i feel like my fingernail during certain stages are really good to use um and this clay was a little bit softer here also um a little bit softer than it should have been it should be around leather harder a little bit harder than leather hard whenever you burnish it with the stone but uh the fingernail really does it my fingernail really does it good here so i just use my fingernail to really smooth and show you guys just like how glossy and just how smooth it can really get how sleek the feeling of it is but yeah that's really all burnishing is you're just polishing your pottery you're making it nice and shiny and [Music] the only thing else that i would say about burnishing is that if you burnish you really don't want to put a glaze over your burnishing um just because it'll take away from the effect of the burnish so if you're doing like low fire pottery or pit firings i would stick with the burnish because it'll have a nice effect to it and low fire burnings aren't really for glazing so you can get away with doing cool different uh burnishing designs like maybe make some patterns that are burnished and some that aren't um and give it that kind of cool effect to it but i just burnished the half of this pot and then i end up firing this later and i try and put glaze on the top where i didn't burnish it and then on the bottom i keep it smooth and burnished like that without any glaze on it and um i couldn't get i couldn't get the glaze hot enough to melt and ventrify onto onto the pottery so right now i'm in the process of making a kiln that hopefully will get up to higher temperatures so i can eventually start doing some glaze videos for you too and working with natural glazes ash glazes stuff like that that i can show you how to make but burnishing is definitely a good way to liven up your pottery give it more character and just give it a nice feel to it

Channel: Higher Perspective Art

Views: 403

Rating: 5 out of 5

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Id: rIMfK15c86Y

Length: 5min 6sec (306 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2021