Glazing Course: STONE GOOD - Learn to make your own stoneware glaze

Description

In 6 lessons I will teach you how to compose and understand your own stoneware glaze. What are the main ingredients. How to combine and vary them. We work in pairs. This way you can test a lot! In between I give assignments. These take little time but at home you can always experiment with the material to give extra depth to the course. Every lesson you get the theory. Together with the photos and notes from the lessons, this gives you a good start to work on your own after this.

Who is this course for?

If you have been working with ceramics for a while and have already worked with engobes, semi-finished products and have already put together your own pottery glaze and understand a bit about what raw materials do in it, then this is a great next step. Ideally, you have your own kiln(s) or you can experiment with making your own glaze at your course location. But this is not necessary. I teach the course in an approachable way, where we mainly get to work and test a lot and then analyze the results. Of course there is also theory involved but I have the same approach to making glaze as I have to cooking. You have to get to know your ingredients and understand what they do and in combination with each other. I personally stay far away from something like the Seger formula. Glazes are quite a challenge and this is really the basics. How to make a horizontal test, how to make a raw material test and how to make a color test. We are not going to work with crystal glazes! These are incredibly difficult and error prone so for the advanced glazier.

Number of lessons: 6

Tuesday, March 31 (Introduction lesson: theory lesson on how the different raw material groups work, how does my studio work, how do you work safely, how do you mix a glaze/how do you apply a glaze
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Tuesday, April 14 (Commodity test: in a 2 different bases we test 9 different commodities to see what effect they have in a stoneware environment)

Tuesday, April 21 (Analysis of previous tests/binary series based on the chosen commodity)

Tuesday, May 5 (Analysis of previous tests/triangle based on 3 different commodities)

Tuesday, May 19 (Analyzing previous tests/coloring in test from triangle)

Tuesday, June 2 (Analysis of previous tests/ Q&A/ conclusion)

Tuesday from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Cost: €375

Ingredients, gloves, cups and tools are provided.

What to bring yourself:

Gold scales (0.1 gram accuracy), Brushes (a little flat), Apron, Mouth mask, Notebook, Pen, Possibly a laptop, (Logo) Stamp, Glazing pencil, Wallpaper tape, Permanent Marker, multi-binder with slip-in sleeves and inserts you can write on.