ONE BASIC glaze - 1000 Variations

Taking a reliable cone six glaze and experimenting and firing with endless variations

A thorough examination of functional decorative and textural possibilities.

Workshop includes full details of application and decorative methods

PREPARATION FOR THIS WORKSHOP

Individual preparation for this workshop:

50 or more bisqued clay boxes or straight side tubs each person for melting mixtures measurements 4x3inches( 100x75 mm) and 1 inch (25 mm) deep.....can be roughly made for stacking on top of each other.

 

a plastic spoon for measuring -- an old paint brush (1 cm) for mixing.

a few small cups or plastic beakers for mixing--a notebook and pencil

a ceramic pencil or fine brush for labelling tests

a few things needed for the design component of this class

(full illustrated details provided later)

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Group requirements

a few ceramic colour stains to share

Frit 3134 (4108)  4kgs

Kaolin          4kgs

Silica          2kgs

potash feldspar   2kgs

whiting          1kgs

talc              1kgs

the following materials are fairly essential for active results :

small amounts (approx one kilo-depending on number of people)

bone ash(natural)  magnesium carbonate(light)   wood ash(unsieved) rutile          feldspar      nephelyne syenite        zinc oxide      titaniumoxide     talc      any frit   wollastonite    china clay                    

lots of ceramic colour stains of any kind (students will also bring these if possible)

lithium carbonate   cryolite    spodumene       strontium carbonate soda ash        petalite        volcanic ash(pumice)         cement amblygonite      molochite        calcined alumina     fluorspar    tin oxide

copper oxide       cobalt oxide       ironoxide           

also required

a medium or small kiln that will fire quickly or automatically overnight to a lower or higher temperature (each day).

plenty of table space.a good water supply.and waste disposal

dark room for several short slide sessions where design sessions consider the use of texture colour and glaze

preferred slide projector--kodak carousel please let me know that this is possible

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an idea of what you can expect.

• no previous knowledge is necessary - only a willingness to experiment with irreverent regard to the rules.

• no weighing, no measuring,no sieving, no line blends, no long recipes, no heavy brain strain.

• overnight firing with hundreds of exciting results-dry, matt, glossy, velvet, gritty, crackled, crawling, cratered, in dozens of exciting colours at different temperatures.

• not only that, but an introduction to ways of using all the above in simple effective ways during several design sessions

• guaranteed lively, simple, creative and intriguing approach to glaze surface.