Brushworks and the Wheel
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The wheel isn’t just used for creating pottery; it can also be used to help glaze your wares too. The biggest benefit of using a brush to glaze on a wheel is consistency and an even coverage. Dipping a ware in a bucket of glaze sometimes results in drips down the side of the piece or marks where you’ve been holding it.
Place your bisque-fired ware on the wheel (plates are a great place to start with this glazing technique) and center it. Then decant some of your glaze into a pot and pick your brush. A flat wide Hake brush (one where the bristles are soft and dense) works well. Load the brush and set the wheel at a gentle speed. After each turn of the wheel, move your brush slowly from the rim of the plate to its center, ensuring the entire plate is covered.
If you don’t want to keep dipping the brush in a glaze pot, you can fill a large syringe with your preferred glaze and keep it close to your brush on the pot or plate, evenly depositing glaze as the wheel spins.