Skill Level: Three (Intermediate)

Requirements: Completion of Glaze One or similar (must be familiar with glazing techniques and vocabulary)

Think mixing your own glazes is hard? Does the idea of finding recipes and testing them fill you with existential dread? Fear no more! If you can bake (and maybe even if you can’t) then you can mix your own glazes for way less than you’d spend on commercial ones. Whether you spend hours drooling over recipes on Glazy or have no idea where to even start, you’ll leave this class comfortable and confident with being able to find, mix, and test whatever glazes your heart desires. Don’t be intimidated, mixing glazes is so much easier than you imagine.

Week One:

• Glaze materials

• Finding glaze recipes

• Understanding glaze recipes

Week Two:

• Proper weighing and use of studio equipment

• Mixing glazes and making test tiles

• Specific gravity & viscosity

• Base glazes and colorants

Week Three:

• Review of week two test tiles

• Mixing glazes

• Using base glazes

• Changing colorants

Week Four:

• Testing glazes for durability and food safety

• Special firing programs - drop holds and controlled cooling

• In-depth review of everyone’s tests

• Mixing a glaze to take home!

Included with class:

• Access to studio dry materials and use of mixing equipment

• Cone 6 studio clay for test tiles

• Weekly firings for test tiles

• Studio access outside of class time during the following hours:
  Monday-Thursday 8:30AM-9:00PM, Friday 8:30AM-5:00PM, Saturday & Sunday 10:00AM-4:00PM

You will need to bring:

• Something to take notes with if you’d like

• It is highly recommended to bring the clay body you use (or the one you use the most) for your tests to get the most out of your class