Glazing made easy online workshop

​Glazing Made Easy is a 6-week online pottery class with 10 weeks of video access. Potters will learn the basics of ceramic glazes and how they work. They will learn the most common faults and errors in pottery studios and discover ways to fix them.
Antoinette offers beginner potters clear guidance on purchasing, mixing, and applying glazes. She helps intermediate potters refine and improve their glazing techniques. 
Students will dive into glaze consistency and experiment with creative application techniques.
​This course offers essential tools for anyone curious about creating glazes from recipes or experimenting with their own ideas.
​Duration of class
6 weeks formal video classes, 4 weeks reviewing
10 weeks total viewing

Contents of class

Week 1
  • ​What is a glaze and how to understand glazing.
  • The history and pathways of pottery glazes.
  • ​What is needed in your studio for glazing pottery.
  • ​The purpose of glazing.
  • ​Planning the glaze process and preparing your bisque ware.
  • Using of cold and hot waxes and cleaning of bottoms and lid areas. 
​Week 2
This week is presented by a guest functional potter (Lynn Barnwell) who is assisted by Antoinette
  • What to consider when buying commercial glazes.
  • Glaze effects.
  • Mixing and using commercial glazes.
  • ​Dipping and testing commercial glazes.
​Week 3
Explore different dipping techniques.
Pouring glazes.
Spray glazing.
Understand glaze additives
  • ​Suspending agents
  • ​Flocculants
  • ​De-flocculants
  • ​Brush-on mediums
Mixing and preparing glazes​
Week 4
  • Understanding raw materials for glazes.
  • Making test tiles.
  • How to mix a glaze from a recipe.
  • Measuring the density of glazes.
  • Procedures and tips for glazing test tiles.
​​Week 5
Glaze projects
  • ​Cuerda Seca glazing
  • Majolica​
  • Glaze layering
  • Different resist methods
  • Glaze printing
  • Glaze trailing
​Week 6
  • ​Understand heat work.
  • ​Firing glazes.
  • Glaze faults and remedies.
  • ​Glazes and firing techniques.
  • ​Analyzing glaze test results.

What students say about the classes.

 John L. (Tennessee, USA)
Wow, what a class! For those looking to find the "missing dots" that seem to dog you, this course nails it. The material covers all the bases and more. Plenty of intro to materials, glazing methods and trouble shooting. I especially appreciated the "Improving the usability of glazes" as it relates to brushing on glazes. I recommend the course to anyone who wants to get a handle on how glazes work, why and don't want to be a physics student to understand.
The raw materials listed here are the ones that I've worked with in the past and still use in some or other way in my studio: 
Alumina Hydrate, Albany slip, Ball clay, Barium Oxide,  Bentonite,  Bentones , Calcium Borate, Calcined Alumina, Chrome Oxide, Cobalt Carbonate , Cobalt Oxide, Colemanite , Copper Carbonate , Copper Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Custer feldspar,  Dolomite, Darvan 7, Darvan 11, Dolomite, EP Kaolin, Fireclay , Ferric Oxide, G 200 Feldspar, Grog , Grolleg, kaolin, Goldart, Gerstley Borate, Halloysite, Hydrocal,  Iron Oxide, Iron Oxide Yellow, Kaolin ,Kentucky Ball Clay, Lithium Carbonate, Macaloid, Magnesite , Magnesia, Magnesium Oxide, Manganese Carbonate, Mahavir Potash Feldspar , Molochite, Monmorillonite, Mullite, Nepheline Syenite, New Zealand Halloysite, Nickel Carbonate
Nickel Oxide Green, Nylon Fibers, Old Hickory Clay, Paper fibers, Potash Feldspar, Pyrophyllite, Petalite, Petunse,
Potters Plaster, Plastic Vitrox, Portland Cement , PV Clay, Pyrax Pyrophyllite, Redart , Refractory Clay, Rutile , Silica, Silica Sand, Soda Feldspar, Spodumene , Sodium Silicate, Soda ash, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Standard Porcelain Kaolin, Strontium Carbonate, Super Standard Porcelain, Tennessee Ball Clay, Tile #6 Kaolin, Tin Oxide,
Titanium Dioxide , Talc, Whiting, Wollastonite, Vanadium Pentoxide, Veegum T , Vermiculite, Yellow Ochre, Yellow Iron Oxide, Zirconium Dioxide , Zircopax, Zircopax Plus , Zinc Oxide