Morgan Britt on fri 20 aug 04
Eighteen participants just completed Ron Roy's Northern California
5-day, Cone 6 glaze formulation workshop, "Glaze Formulation...
Unraveling the Mystery". While most attendees came from all over
California, we had two who traveled from Alaska and Illinois. What a
workshop! Ron is a fountain of knowledge and did a great job of
imparting his expertise to us in a way we could take what we had learned
and begin to seriously apply it in our own studios.
The attendees brought with them a variety of experience from beginning
to advanced. We found that those who were more experienced graciously
helped the newcomers fill in knowledge gaps so we were all able to
follow along with Ron at a steady clip. The net result is that every
single participant walked away with a general working knowledge of the
basics of glaze formulation, what will typically will make a glaze safe
and attractive, and how to test to improve or alter glazes.
What a wonderful group we had. There was not one person who walked away
without a myriad of exciting new tools in their pocket. Email addresses
were exchanged and groups are forming to continue studying, testing and
comparing notes. In addition to oxidation firing, we had about half the
group interested in learning more about reduction glazes and tests were
conducted in both atmospheres. The results were viewed and all are
excited to put our new tools to use. Unraveling the Mystery turned out
to be a highly appropriate name for the workshop, or at least as much of
the mystery as can be unraveled at this time.
Thank you, Ron, for sharing so much of yourself and giving us the
experience of a truly fantastic workshop. Your patience with our
questions, so elementary in comparison to your knowledge bank, helped us
overcome our insecurities while trying to comprehend even the simplest
of glaze basics. You have given us a new understanding of not only our
responsibility in creating safe glazes for our buyers, but also tools to
let us know that we truly do have some element of control over the
creation of such glazes.
Sincerely,
Morgan Britt
FireArt ClayWorks
916-715-6113
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