Bill Edwards on sun 2 nov 03
Jeremy and others, if you are using a Passche try
using the number 5 needle and tip. This is the larger
one for the standard airbrush. #1 fine #3 medium and
#5 large. Screen you glaze well and add glycerin or
propylene glycol. You should find one or the other at
a drug store. This retards the drying time but
lubricates the materials which would normally create
excessive drag as they go over the needle and tip.
Only use maybe a tablespoon for every 300 - 500 Ml.
You would need to test this since glazes are all
different in solids. If you don't screen the glaze try
using a hand held blender like those that are used to
crush ice for mixed drinks, etc. Add an olive and your
ready to open the bar.
Lilly - Its good to hear that your eye surgery went
well. I hope you are able to get it all behind you and
have perfect vision. Its really great that todays
technology is what it is. So many people could have
benefited from what is now known as minor surgeries so
many years back. My grandmother being one!
John Rogers - I would love to visit with you some day.
I am working on an old house up the road from B'ham on
280 as you go to Auburn. I could learn some great
pointers from you if you ever have the opportunity to
allow a visit from me?
Teaching in a place such as what was being discussed
recently as public facilities has some merit but many
places can stiffle a human to death. I know this from
experience. A student can learn from restrictive
methods or from very loose methods. Too often
economics and time are factors and the classes are
often too big or the program is interested in making
money or in the least having a large group so that it
appears the interest is there based on where and who
the funding is coming from. Its one of those remarks
that can't be fully answered and would have to be
taken on a one to one basis because the background
issues are so vast. I would prefer any student to have
full access to every potential means of learning. This
would include enough help to cover the area of
training and supplies to carry out the plan. Its
unfortunate that head counting is more important in
some public situations than is accountability of top
notch instructors and instruction. I think that if
Vince's school offers the freedom of experimentation,
then thats a school I would want to be involved with.
Pick your places for learning through careful
research. Some public places have funding for programs
and are interested in making a good show but lack the
proper know how or care. Personally when I taught I
could'nt let students glaze the feet on their pottery
becuase there wasn't enough time or resources to fix
anything that went wrong. (It was a major thing just
to get the floors cleaned once or twice a week and in
between that I was the one washing and doing floors,
mixing glazes, fighting for funding, setting up
galleries and a host of other things that didn't
pertain to art and if any time was left you get to
over-haul the problems created by others which
included shelf cleaning from a wild glaze gone wrong.
(Low wages are included) Jobs like that sound good
till you get in the political arena and find out what
they really are looking for. Expectations were to get
a head count at all costs and to make the building
look presentable in case they wanted to have a show
and tell about another successful endeavor they
created and of course take full credit for when
someone applauded the effort. (Looks good at board
meetings) So, some of this is a joke while other
schools and classes are a gold mine. You can of course
learn something from all of it. I am just not happy
with the fact that sports teams can get most of what
they need when art classes/centers have to fight like
badgers to get their floors cleaned all too often! And
I do like sports. This is about those situations where
funding for multiple programs are used, some will get
the mother load of money while others will get the
pennies that fall through the cracks and of course all
expectations is to take that and turn water into wine
from those who control the purse strings. Any art
student deserves every right to experiment with good
leadership helping them evolve. They need someone who
gives them challenges and reasons to look for an
answer when faced with something that doesn't work
out. In my own studio I seldom even use a wash on my
shelves. It takes a long haul to figure out how and
why I would not need to use kiln wash as often but it
comes with experience. Theres always just enough in
case I do need to do a cleaning but its not a
priority. This is once again one of my reasons I love
Clayart for what it is!!! This forum is a school. It
teaches us in many ways. It has its challenges and its
faults so we can look for answers. Now if we can take
all of this forums people and move into Vince's school
we would have potters heaven. Plus from what I have
seen some of you can cook like nobodies business and
therefore we would be fat, happy and doing things
without restriction and all would be good. Lilly bring
some jam when you come! And come to think of it, we
would have our very own Mayor...
Bill Edwards
=====
http://www.tallapoosariverpottery.com/
Bill Edwards
PO Box 267
Lafayette, AL, 36862
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logan johnson on sun 2 nov 03
Hey Bill & all,
BIG A - MEN sign me up for this school idea. I am soooo there!! I'll bring a " buffalo "chicken & saffron rice dish into the mix!
Bill Edwards wrote:
Jeremy and others, if you are using a Passche try
using the number 5 needle and tip. This is the larger
one for the standard airbrush. #1 fine #3 medium and
#5 large. Screen you glaze well and add glycerin or
propylene glycol. You should find one or the other at
a drug store. This retards the drying time but
lubricates the materials which would normally create
excessive drag as they go over the needle and tip.
Only use maybe a tablespoon for every 300 - 500 Ml.
You would need to test this since glazes are all
different in solids. If you don't screen the glaze try
using a hand held blender like those that are used to
crush ice for mixed drinks, etc. Add an olive and your
ready to open the bar.
Lilly - Its good to hear that your eye surgery went
well. I hope you are able to get it all behind you and
have perfect vision. Its really great that todays
technology is what it is. So many people could have
benefited from what is now known as minor surgeries so
many years back. My grandmother being one!
John Rogers - I would love to visit with you some day.
I am working on an old house up the road from B'ham on
280 as you go to Auburn. I could learn some great
pointers from you if you ever have the opportunity to
allow a visit from me?
Teaching in a place such as what was being discussed
recently as public facilities has some merit but many
places can stiffle a human to death. I know this from
experience. A student can learn from restrictive
methods or from very loose methods. Too often
economics and time are factors and the classes are
often too big or the program is interested in making
money or in the least having a large group so that it
appears the interest is there based on where and who
the funding is coming from. Its one of those remarks
that can't be fully answered and would have to be
taken on a one to one basis because the background
issues are so vast. I would prefer any student to have
full access to every potential means of learning. This
would include enough help to cover the area of
training and supplies to carry out the plan. Its
unfortunate that head counting is more important in
some public situations than is accountability of top
notch instructors and instruction. I think that if
Vince's school offers the freedom of experimentation,
then thats a school I would want to be involved with.
Pick your places for learning through careful
research. Some public places have funding for programs
and are interested in making a good show but lack the
proper know how or care. Personally when I taught I
could'nt let students glaze the feet on their pottery
becuase there wasn't enough time or resources to fix
anything that went wrong. (It was a major thing just
to get the floors cleaned once or twice a week and in
between that I was the one washing and doing floors,
mixing glazes, fighting for funding, setting up
galleries and a host of other things that didn't
pertain to art and if any time was left you get to
over-haul the problems created by others which
included shelf cleaning from a wild glaze gone wrong.
(Low wages are included) Jobs like that sound good
till you get in the political arena and find out what
they really are looking for. Expectations were to get
a head count at all costs and to make the building
look presentable in case they wanted to have a show
and tell about another successful endeavor they
created and of course take full credit for when
someone applauded the effort. (Looks good at board
meetings) So, some of this is a joke while other
schools and classes are a gold mine. You can of course
learn something from all of it. I am just not happy
with the fact that sports teams can get most of what
they need when art classes/centers have to fight like
badgers to get their floors cleaned all too often! And
I do like sports. This is about those situations where
funding for multiple programs are used, some will get
the mother load of money while others will get the
pennies that fall through the cracks and of course all
expectations is to take that and turn water into wine
from those who control the purse strings. Any art
student deserves every right to experiment with good
leadership helping them evolve. They need someone who
gives them challenges and reasons to look for an
answer when faced with something that doesn't work
out. In my own studio I seldom even use a wash on my
shelves. It takes a long haul to figure out how and
why I would not need to use kiln wash as often but it
comes with experience. Theres always just enough in
case I do need to do a cleaning but its not a
priority. This is once again one of my reasons I love
Clayart for what it is!!! This forum is a school. It
teaches us in many ways. It has its challenges and its
faults so we can look for answers. Now if we can take
all of this forums people and move into Vince's school
we would have potters heaven. Plus from what I have
seen some of you can cook like nobodies business and
therefore we would be fat, happy and doing things
without restriction and all would be good. Lilly bring
some jam when you come! And come to think of it, we
would have our very own Mayor...
Bill Edwards
=====
http://www.tallapoosariverpottery.com/
Bill Edwards
PO Box 267
Lafayette, AL, 36862
__________________________________
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