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  1. I've been slowly rehydrating the urns. I've burnished a couple. @Callie Beller DieselI think I will remake them, less blocky looking. But I do like the burnished effect. This one has burnishing on the left and not yet on the right. Also on the plus side, they feel smoother and less powdery. Nancy
  2. I've got two of the urns in my damp box, I did as @oldladysuggested and dunked them in water, (that was a bit scary) then put them in the box. I don't have much access to the pottery lab over the summer - it's full of kids programs, so I'll try to slowly rehydrate them. I'm thinking once they are hydrated I could burnish them to help make them smooth and give it a bit of a gloss. Life is an adventure. It doesn't hurt to try. Thanks for the ideas @Rae Reich & @Callie Beller Diesel I had thought of car wax and dismissed it, but wax resist is an idea, especially if it is plant based. Nancy
  3. I took a piece of the clay I had left over, and dripped then spread some vegetable oil on half of it. It looked great - darkened the red clay and made the white pop - then it absorbed into the clay and 1.5 hours later I can hardly tell which half had the oil on it. The oil also lifted some of the clay particles and made places muddy - because I just had to touch it to spread the oil evenly. Nancy
  4. Yes, @kswan & @Bill Kielb, I do want these to break down in nature. I had thought of beeswax, but not vegetable oil. I have vegetable oil. I threw them pretty thick, so I'm not sure how fragile they will be. I'm sure they will chip though. I will take one of them and do as @oldlady suggested and try to rehydrate it to scrape off the outer slip and bring out the colors. One of my husbands friends wants his ashes to be sunk, dropped, submerged in a lake, so that is one of the ideas for this. Hopefully I will not need to use them soon.
  5. Greetings; I am making urns and leaving them in the greenware state to make it easier to degrade. I used 2 different colors of clay. I was able to trim one before it dried, but the others were left too long. I tried scraping them, but mostly made dust (I wore a mask and worked outside in the wind). I am wondering if I could use a oil or wax to bring out the differences in the colors and maybe showcase the differences in color? What ever needs to be able to degrade with the clay. Nancy
  6. Thank you for the notice on Warren, I live in Minnesota and didn't know he had passed. He affected many of the people I have learned from. Nancy
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