"Design
Your Own Glazes"
A 5-Day Workshop with Chic Lotz
Clay-Planet, Santa Clara, CA.
April 16 (6-9)pm, 17, 18 and 24, 25 (9-5pm)
(800) 443-2529
Clay-Planet.com
Mendocino Art Center, CA.
June 21-25
(800) 653-3328
MendocinoArtCenter.org
Nevada City, CA.
August 2-6
$300 plus $25 Materials Fee
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These workshops are for students who mix glazes and want to learn how
to create new ones with the characteristics they desire. Also learn to
bring a ^10 glazes down to ^6.
Students will
mix and test-fire line blend variations, plus learn to use a computer
glaze calculation program to design original glaze recipes. Chic Lotz
makes it simple with her color-coded chart of glaze ingredients
showing how varying the ratios of 3 major glaze components affects
stability, color, firing temperature, glaze fit and glaze surface. Her
step-by-step teaching method will demystify Weight % and the Unity
Molecular Formula for comparing and designing glaze recipes or making
ingredient substitutions. You too can "get it" about glazes!
Learn what makes a glaze at any firing temperature.
The Ingredients Chart shows the overall "big picture" of
ingredient relationships and how they can be used together to create
glazes with
the characteristics that you desire. Learn how to "analyze" any glaze
recipe, the function of each ingredient and which ingredients can be
substituted for others.
Use Glaze Calculation Software while working with a partner to
compare recipes, make ingredient substitutions, determine the
expansion rate, alter a recipe or calculate the glaze you want for
further testing.
Do Hands On Mixing and Testing as you design line blends and
test-fire them to achieve your target glaze. Students will also test
their own clay bodies to determine the expansion rate in order to
create a good glaze fit. The class will analyze their fired results
for shared learning.
Immediately Use What You Learn and have fun while playing two
glaze games, "Glazo Bingo" and "Create a Glaze." Compare glaze recipes
while seeing and feeling oodles of Chic's sample glaze test tiles.
After this workshop you will be able to answer the questions:
What makes a glaze glossy or matte?
How do I get the colors I want?
What determines the firing temperature?
How do I alter a glaze so it doesn't craze?
Materials fee: A $25 materials fee per student Includes:.
- 11x17 laminated color-coded poster of the glaze ingredients
- 30 printed pages of lecture notes and calculation charts.
- Glaze Colorant Chart listing the base glaze needed
to achieve a specific color.
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