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·  When: Thursday 7 May – Sunday 10 May
‍ ‍Where: The Leach Pottery Learning & Production Studios
‍ ‍Capacity: 8
‍ ‍Duration: 3.5 days

·        Thursday 9am - 4pm

·        Friday 9am - 4pm

·        Saturday 9am - 3pm

·        Sunday 9am - 1pm

Equipment & materials: Tools and test tiles are provided. Students are encouraged to bring their own additional tools if they wish to use them.
‍Please bring your own apron and hand towel.
We recommend you bring your own 3M half mask respirator. If you do not bring a mask with you, we can provide a basic mask.
‍This course will: Teach you some of the science of glazing and how to make and alter your own glazes.
‍You will leave with: Two sets of test tiles
‍ Level: This course is suitable for potters and amateur potters that fire both electric and gas (or other fuel), mid-range to high firing temperatures (not Earthenware). For practical reasons, the tests performed during this workshop will be fired to Cone 6 electric. The knowledge taught on this workshop is independent from the firing technique or temperature.
‍Cost: £600

Overview

You will gain an understanding of what glazes are and how they work. You will discover how glaze recipes can altered, to develop your own glaze, as well as learning how glaze recipes be are calculated. Participants will learn how different raw materials affect a glaze as well as troubeshooting. All tests are oxidisation fired.

For a beginner’s introduction to glaze and glaze application, please see here.

During your time at the Leach Pottery you will:

• learn the basics of glaze chemistry theory

• learn about the properties of raw materials

• learn how to calculate glaze recipes

• test glazes by sing blends

• learn about glaze troubleshooting

Course Schedule

Day One: Glaze Testing & Basics of Glaze Chemistry

• short introduction to glaze chemistry

• introduction to glaze testing

• line blend basic raw materials

• triaxial blends

Day Two: Glaze Testing

• quadraxial blends

• colour blends

• introduction to grid method

Day Three: Glaze Technology, Calculation of Recipes

• introduction to glaze technology

• basics (what is a glaze, what are the important oxides, eutectic mixtures)

• properties of glazes (viscosity, surface tension, thermal expansion)

• properties of oxides/raw materials

• calculating glaze recipes

Day Four: Trouble Shooting, Analysis of Test

• troubleshooting

• analysis of tests

• glaze surgery (you can bring examples of glazes that you have trouble with, for advice).

Ability & Skill Level: Improver and Intermediate

This course is suitable for Intermediate & Advanced makers.

We find participants who get the most from this course:

·        Have regular access to kilns

·        Have intensions of establishing their own glazes

·        Have the desire to engage the specifics of their glazes in order to solve glaze problems

This course requires significant focused working and basic mathematical abilities.

Abilities are self-identified, so there may be a range of experience within the group.

Please be aware, only assistance dogs are allowed in the Learning spac

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Price: £600 

Capacity: 8

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