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Clay Planet gives workshops on various ceramic subjects.
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WORKSHOPS 2010
Design & Alter Mid & High Fire Glazes
Learn to use a Calculation Program
A 5-day Hands-On Workshop with Chic Lotz
Two weekends:
Friday April 16, 6pm - 9pm
Saturday/Sunday 17,18 9am - 5pm
Saturday/Sunday April 23 & 24 9am - 5pm
This workshop is for students who mix glazes and want to learn how to
create new ones with the characteristics they desire. How to alter glazes from cone 10 to cone 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!
During the workshop students will discover:
• The 3 components that make a glaze
• How ratios affect these 5 important factors: stability, color, firing temperature,
glaze fit (expansion rate) and glaze surface(matte/glossy/opaque/transparent)
• How to alter a high fire recipe to work at mid fire, and bring midfire recipes up to high.
• The 10 fluxing oxides and where to find them
• Which ingredients can substitute for others
• The function of each ingredient in the glaze recipe
• How to analyze a glaze recipe to gain more information
• Ways to design and perform "quick" line blends
• How to use a glaze calculation program to alter or design new glazes
• How to use Weight % and the Unity Molecular Formula to compare glazes
Cost $325 - Includes 5 full days, plus all materials & firing.
CALL 408-295-3352 or 1-800-443-2529 to register.
Chic Lotz presented “What Makes A Glaze?” for high school teachers at
the National Ceramic Educators Conference (K-12 Forum) in 2007.
She has presented glaze workshops in California at the UC Davis Craft
Center, the Mendocino Art Center Alpha Ceramics in Sacramento,
Ruby’s in San Francisco and the Mud Hut Ceramics Center in Nevada
City. Her glaze articles have appeared in Clay Times, Pottery
Making Illustrated and the Potter’s Council Newsletter.
Got a question for Chic? Contact her at the following:
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