Brown Bag Session 11/27/13

The featured DVD for tomorrow's session will be Sandi Pierantozzi's, "What If?(thank you Florence!). We viewed it several months ago, and if you didn't catch it then, join us tomorrow. Sandi has a unique and useful orientation to handbuilding. She offers many techniques to improve your clay making work. We will hopefully get her to present an in-person workshop at the Art League in the near future.

P.S. Please include pottery DVD's on your Christmas wish list. We have a basic backlog library from several members (thanks Jeff, Carmela, Florence, Brenda, Wes...and anyone else who has contributed), but we could always use an infusion of new informative or instructional inputs.

Thought Food 11/21/13

Check out these links. Loosen up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpfjw8EmWA (Chris Staley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKyQmdoGh6M (Bill van Gilder)

As always, if you would like to be removed from our mailing list, let me know.
Wes

Brown Bag Session 11/19/13

In tomorrow's Brown Bag session we will complete the DVD from last week, Martha Grover's "Creating Curves with Clay". In addition we'll discuss members' requests for future Brown Bag topics.

Brown Bag 11/12/13

Martha Grover's DVD, "Creating Curves with Clay", will be featured today.

Brown Bag 11/5/13

Topic for today's Brown Bag session will be a continuation of the RAL Studio Glazes discussion with emphasis on application techniques and glaze problem solving. Join us!

Brown Bag session 10/28/13

Featured DVD for tomorrow's Brown Bag will be a re-run of Martha Grover's DVD. She was extremely well received the first time around, so if you missed it plan to be there. Next week will be the 2nd part of the RAL glazing presentation by Carmela and Wes. if you missed part 1, there are some handouts available. See Wes.

Brown Bag 10/22/13

The topic for our Brown Bag session on Tues. will be "glazing". We will be discussing our RAL glazes with the following tentative outline:


RAL glazes and their application
RAL Studio glazes
   glaze list and characteristics (handout)
   glaze combinations (handout)
Application
   preparation
       cleaning the ware
      waxing and wax resist
   techniques for:
       dipping
       brushing
       pouring
       spraying
Glaze problems
   With the glaze –
       glaze characteristics that can produce problems
       glaze interactions
   With the application –
       glaze thickness
       glaze mixing
       potential contaminents



The format will be a combination of presentation/demonstration and especially discussion, so please bring your questions and experiences with you.




Clay link of the week
Check out the following video by John Britt to get you started thinking about our topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpQns05RdVU