How to finish ceramic sculptures with waxes. Tutorial 

All of your people exude such serenity and peace, it is so refreshing. I also love that you use household items to polish rather than expensive finishes. You are a superb artist. Thank you

Your tutorial is so helpful and clear. Just what I needed to finish my clay sculptures. Thank you for your generosity and wisdom in sharing your expertise.

Totally obsessed about your work and techniques!!!!

This video is an absolute gem! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!! Your work is gorgeous!

Thank you so much, I'm so glad for the variety you showed; your work is lovely, and your explanations concise and helpful

SO INCREDIBLE!! Thank you so much Joanna for sharing!

This is amazing. I'm still a fairly new to pottery/sculpture. I would love to try all of these techniques. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work.

I have never seen such lifelike, and beautiful, ceramic sculptures. You are very gifted.

Such beautiful work. I'm inspired to try wax and graphite on my garden sculptures. Thank you for sharing your technique s

Fantastic video and amazing results! Thank you for sharing your techniques. Inspiring!

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I bisque fire my clay using charcoal. The temperature is never high enough for melting glaze. This method is very suitable for my work.

Very nice sculpts with nice technical wax. The faces look so alive with the closed eyes. Bravo!

Your voice, and your accent, as well as your mannerisms are just so warm and beautifully comforting. I just love the sound and your beautiful way of speaking. A great pleasure to listen to. Thanks very much. Warm regards from Canada. I look forward to experiencing all of your video library!

Thank you Joanna, your work is beautiful and the tutorial very clear and helpful. Sasha

Your work is magnificent!!!! Thank you for showing us these finishings.

Your work is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful technique. A great alternative to bronze and enables the artist to maintain control of the creative process.

Dear Joanna, I cannot thank you enough for the enjoyment and instruction your many videos have given me over the years. You gave me the courage to start sculpting the head in late middle age and my first piece was my father from memory - he died when I was young. I only wish I lived in Canada so I could join your students in your studio. I always recommend you to any of our ceramics group who wish to take up sculpture and your example has been a great inspiration to my granddaughter. Sending you my thanks for and appreciation of your great talent.

Subscribed! I just approached clay sculpture and this tutorial is gold. Beautiful works!

This is so useful, thank you. My tutor showed me how to apply graphite mixed with 50% shellac and 50% Methylated Spirits. You can then buff it and once dry, apply a wash of an acrylic if desired. Good to see your method too.

You are wonderful you keep the subject simple and clear with a very pleasant voice

Uwielbiam Pani prace. Pani głos sprawia, że muszę pracować w glinie według Pani wskazówek. Tworzy pani nastrój porywający do tworzenia, kreowania własnych pomysłów dzięki Pani pomocy. Bardzo dziękuję za wszystkie pomysły wykończenia rzeżb. Często wracam do zapisanych Pani filmów. Szkoda wielka, że nie ma kolejnych filmów. Bardzo serdecznie pozdrawiam i proszę o więcej 😊❤.

your work is wonderful and so much information thankyou for your generosity.

Thank you for sharing. I will use your technique.

Thanks for sharing your tips :) Beautiful work!

incredible work, technique!! Thank you

Beautiful work. I really enjoyed your video.. Thanks so much for sharing.

I've used shoe polish before, but this goes way beyond that! Beautiful work!

Your work is stunning 😍 wow.

Great tutorial, Joanna, I've thinking about use grafite before glazying, you gave me some ideias for testing, thanks a lot

This is sovery helpful - it's hard to find thorough info on this process. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing all that wisdom! 🌈💓

Love your work!!!

your tutorial is very helpful. Thank you

Thank you for sharing this. It’s perfect.

This is gold. Blessings to you friend :)

I appreciate you. Lovely work and this is so useful to me. Thank you

Incroyable résultats.. vraiment parfait... bravo

Beautiful, thank you for sharing

i think your heads are so brilliant joanna.

Beautiful!

Thank you! This is very helpful!

I love this

Beautiful work. And great tips! I used to use hairspray as a drawing fixative. I wonder if it would work over wax 🤔

I actually love the glossy red

Fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻

Your amazing!

you have converted me. i thought i had to always use sculpey glaze [very expensive]. these pieces are beautiful..

Прекрасные работы!!!!

You do a wonderful job explaining. Thank you so much, really appreciate your information!!

Ficou lindo!

Amazing

Thank you so much! Very interesting techniques. Instead of graffite powder can we use powdered pigments?

Grazie ❤

Fabulous 👏👏🌷🦋

This is great, wondering if you can refute these pieces after using waxes

Bravo!

merci.....

Beautiful technique and sculptures. Would the sculptures have to be re-waxed every few years or so? Will the waxes ever come off on hands, etc. if the piece is handled or placed in a warm area?

Mega ciekawe!

Beautiful. Do you think these techniques would work with air dry clay sculptures?

On the first piece you applied MINWAX Pase Finishing wax and then followed with Sonite Wax by Smooth-on? Thank you so much for your video.

Do you fire twice or just once? I love these ideas!

Супер!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍

Thanks you very much for this tutorial. This is very helpful. I am a begginer so could you tell me if all of this technics work with plaster ?

Is the powder the same thing you buy for locks please?

Can we fire clay in studio or should I buy a kiln

Joanna, do you apply was to a bisqued sculpture or to a cone 6 fired piece? Thank you!

Thanks for sharing such wonderful information, can you advice if I can apply wax and graphite to air dried clay sculpture without firing it??

Joanna, how did you remove wax from the sculpture when you didn't like the look? Thank you.

Beautiful sculpture work. Just wondering, will the fixatif not come off or craquelure in time because it is on the wax?

I greatly admire the sculpture Water. Have you considered doing a How-to for the acrylics?

Would this work on plaster?

Good morning, i like your work and i try too . I have the question : on the last piece, you use the sponge. The sponge is it wet or dry ? And the wax is it dry or no when you use the sponge ? Thank you for you reponse and félicitations for your sculptures

Wow You are amazing! Could You share the materiales to finish,? it's because i'm from Colombia and i would like to know them but un spanish! God bless you

Thank you for sharing this info! Your sculptures are beautiful. I was wondering, do you only bisque fire these pieces then apply wax, or do you use the two-step firing process?

Thanks so much for sharing these finishing techniques! Are are you applying these finishes to bisque or final fired unglazed sculptures?

Hello, do you think I use these waxes on Plaster of Paris or Cement? I am making my first life cast of a hand. I am new to this so don't know anything 😅

Bonjour, je suis française et il n’y a pas de sous-titres sur votre vidéo mais j’adore ce que vous faites. Pouvez-vous me donner le nom en français des produits que vous utilisez s’il vous plaît. Encore félicitations pour vos oeuvres

It's really awesome ♥️ I would like to try on my sculptures also....I have a doubt is the wax will come out after dry? because we use wax at the bottom of pieces when we glaze the pieces, so that's coming of after few hours.can you please describe about that?

Can you please provide the name (generic or commercial name) of the clay you are using. I can't seem to find it. I have various types of Plastesina types of oil based clay. Thanks for any guidance.

so you just fire it once then wax it? do you glaze it?

Instead of heating up the wax, have you tried mixing it with mineral spirits?

Do you use the vax on bisque fired and unglazed items?

Would this work on an air dried sculpture?

Joana no sale la opción en español...no entiendo el proceso😭

J’aurais tellement aimé que votre commentaire soit en français. Dommage bonne année 2024 à vous.

😢 oh. j’aurais tant aimé avoir cela en français je ne comprends pas

En français svp

Dommage que je ne connaisse pas suffisamment bien l'anglais 😢😒

All of the materials you are using (except the wax) were meant for drawings or art on paper. That fixative you are using says what it is for on the label (Not anything hard) It is meant to soak into paper and then get hard to avoid smudges. We don't use ANY of that on hard surfaces because over time we have discovered that it doesn't last. The wax is just folly. All you would have to do to see that wax can not be part of finish on a ceramic sculpture is sit it in the sun after. You are part of the reason why "learning" from just anyone online who is talking - IS A BAD IDEA!

Beautiful!