4/5 Blog post

My teacher told me that since I am using such a heavy glazing technique I will need to wax the feet of all my pieces. So i started that process yesterday. I only have a few pieces to wax now and I gotta say, It does help a lot and takes some of the worry of dripping onto the foot away.

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