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​I will give you tools to expand your options to use your glazes strictly for function, but I will also help you to create techniques with glazes that you may use for decoration on your work. Some decoration techniques will also be usable for kitchenware. We will address troubled glazes; how to identify and fix them and we will touch on altering glazes for the different base glazing techniques, like dipping, pouring, spraying and brushing on glazes.
There are different ways to resist glazes from the pottery surface. It is also possible to block out a certain area and layer a next color on top of the previous one.
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Like clay, glaze materials come from the earth and are known as raw glaze materials. A basic ceramic glaze is made up of clay, silica, and melting agents. In this video, Antoinette explains these materials in simple terms, using analogies from her kitchen.
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Pottery glazing can be done using many different techniques. One of the oldest is majolica, a decorative method that originated in the 15th century on the Spanish island of Majorca.  
​Like clay, glaze materials come from the earth and are known as raw glaze materials. A basic glaze is made up of clay, silica, and melting agents. In this video, Antoinette explains these materials in simple terms, using analogies from her kitchen.
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How to create a transfer template on sponge.

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What does unfired examples of majolica looks like.

Course Summary: Glazing in Ceramic
This online course is tailored for beginners who are struggling with and are unsuccessful with glazing their pottery.  

​Week 1 – The basics of Pottery glazes. 
Discover what a glaze is and how to understand the glazing process. Explore the history and evolution of pottery glazes, the purpose of glazing, and what you need in your studio to get started. Learn how to plan your glaze process, prepare bisque ware, use cold and hot wax resists, and properly clean foot rings and lid areas.

Week 2 – Working with Commercial Glazes
This week features guest functional potter Lynn Barnwell, assisted by Antoinette. Learn what to consider when purchasing commercial glazes, how to mix and use them, explore glaze effects, and practice dipping and testing techniques.

Week 3 – Application Techniques & Additives
Explore a variety of glaze application methods including dipping, pouring, and spray glazing. Learn about glaze additives such as suspending agents, flocculants, deflocculants, and brush-on mediums. You’ll also cover proper glaze mixing and preparation.

Week 4 – Mixing Glazes from Scratch
Gain an understanding of raw glaze materials, learn how to make test tiles, mix glazes from recipes, measure glaze density, and follow best practices for glazing and testing.

Week 5 – Creative Glaze Projects
Put your skills into action with hands-on glaze projects including Cuerda Seca, Majolica, glaze layering, resist techniques, glaze printing, and glaze trailing.
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Week 6 – Firing & Troubleshooting
Learn about heat work, firing glazes, and different firing techniques. Identify common glaze faults and remedies, and analyze your glaze test results to refine your process.
Link to online workshops at TeachinArt.com:
Glazing made easy 
Hand building pottery for beginners  

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Right from his early days (60+ years ago), Ron was looking for a canvas on which he could apply a pottery glaze. Creating pottery with thicker or thinner rims would dictate which glaze would go where. 
In his earliest days, information of raw materials was hard to come by, so potters often had to guess their way through recipes. Then calculating the percentages of different ingredients to assure that there is not too much or too little of either a flux (an oxide that lowers the melting temperature of refractory oxides), or a stabilizer (alumina) or a glass former (silica or borax) in a pottery glaze, never turned out the same two times in a row. 
Ron wanted to visualize the inside of a ceramic glaze, so when he got his first computer, a new world opened for him. This experience of getting to know glaze making and to break the uncertainty and thumb sucking to obtain good and stable glazes became reality when Tony Hansen from Digital fire fame created the first Insight program. 
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It was with this program that Ron Roy became the glaze doctor, helping potters around the globe to fix glazing problems and to obtain sturdy clay and glazes. 
Being a person that believe you have to give to receive, his contributions to Clayart, is (at age 86) to this day still unmeasurable.

The pottery book Mastering Cone 6 glazes, with co-author John Hesselberth is back on the market after it was first published in 2002. This book took the potters market by storm and almost every potter that worked at ^6 developed glazes from there; learning about the importance of stable and food safe glazes. ( scroll down for video)
Now he brings us Glazing with Ron Roy. After years of personal exploration of glazes, helping other potters to improve and fix faulty glazes, he offers an online class which will allow you to be directly in conversation with him about remedying glazes. Ron will show you step by step  examples of how to use the free Insight program, a frontrunner of the Insight-live program. He will also share with you the follow-up Ron Roy Glaze book in PDF format. ​
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Mastering Cone 6 glazes By John Hesselberth and Ron Roy

This book offers something different from what potters find in other pottery glaze books. John and Ron discuss what stable and durable ceramic glazes mean. 
They give basic information about buying, storing, weighing, and mixing pottery glazes. 
They teach you how to test for stability, clay, and glaze fit on clayware, resistance to flaws like too soft glazes, causing scratch marks on dinnerware. How to resist glazes on kitchenware to become damaged by acids and alkalis, and how to prevent pottery breaking apart due to terminal shock.
They teach potters how to fit a glaze and prevent shivering ( which will result in glass flakes on pottery), dunting and crazing of pottery.
The book concludes with stoneware, porcelain, and specialty glazes and how to develop your own glazes. ​

​Online Glazing with Ron Roy on Insight

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Porcelain plates by Ron Roy

Glaze book in PDF format by 
Ron Ro content list
​​Expansion coefficients
Limit formulas
Typical Analysis - Glaze materials
Typical Analysis - Feldspars & Spodumenes
Analysis for selected Frits
Typical analysis - clays
The oxides
Glaze defects
Firing Up
Cooling Down
Glaze Test Preparation
Testing for Fit (expansion / contraction)
Testing clay to see if it will leak
Fixing clay and glaze problems
Molecular Weights
Hazards and All Glazes Leach - safety
Recommended Texts and web sites
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Many times we end up with glazes in the studio that we do not necessarily like. Instead of throwing those glazes away, you can use them to decorate surfaces of your pots. You can simply overlap these glazes with a glaze that you know well and like. In this video I took some test glazes and put them on top of a proven glaze, but you can also reverse and place the test glaze first and then the glaze that you like. The effects will be different. 
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One of the most difficult things for potters that did not study chemistry, is to understand glazes. Antoinette describes it in this demonstration with everyday groceries found in the kitchen.
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Antoinette Badenhorst interviews ceramic artist Connie Christensen in a fascinating discussion about Shino glazing techniques, ceramic surfaces, and the artistic possibilities of atmospheric firing.
In this inspiring interview, Connie Christensen shares her experience working with Shino glazes — one of the most admired glaze styles in ceramics, known for its warm tones, carbon trapping, soft textures, and rich surface variation. The conversation explores how Shino glazing combines chemistry, firing atmosphere, and artistic intuition to create expressive ceramic surfaces.
Connie took classes at art centers, community colleges and she attended numerous workshops. She realized that working in clay is a combination of art and science. 
Her online Shino workshop at TeachinArt is just that: a combination between art and science. 
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​Learn to understand glazes and glazing techniques so that you can become more successful as a potter. When you learn how to fix, how to apply and how to decorate with your glazes, nothing can stop you from becoming an excellent ceramic artist.
​One of the methods that will be addressed is majolica, but when majolica techniques are applied to a cone 10 glaze, it becomes something different.
See more about the glazing made easy online workshop.