Clay Bodies
The name for Low Fired Clay.
What is Earthenware?
Three things that you can press into clay to make a design or pattern.
What is Lace, Leaves, Jewelry, Stamps, Alphabet Soup Pasta, Bark, Pattern Mats, Flowers, Etc.
Small piece of fired clay with 3 or 4 metal prongs that glaze-ware pottery sits on in the kiln to keep the pottery from sticking to the shelf.
What is a stilt?
The average amount of coats of glaze that are painted on a piece of pottery to ensure a proper coating.
What is Three
This type of sculptural art form falls between 2D and 3D art. It has a flat back but a raised protruding surface on the front/top.
What is a Ceramic Relief?
The name for High Fired Clay.
What is Stoneware?
An image can easily be transferred onto a leather hard piece of clay using this technique.
What is rubbing The back of a charcoal pencil drawing that is face down onto the surface of the clay.
This is how many posts hold up a ceramic shelf in the kiln.
What is Three.
You need to check to make sure that the glaze is this, before painting it on dinner ware or items that will come in contact with food or drinks.
What is Food Safe?
This can be painting or squeezed onto clay to create a resist technique with glazes or slips.
What is liquid wax?
Type of clay that can get fired at a higher temperature than any other clay body.
What is porcelain?
Drawing into the surface of a piece of clay with a pin tool is called this.
What is incising?
Three types of Kilns and/or Firing Techniques
What are Electric, Gas, Wood, Raku, Pit Firing, Reduction, Salt
This ingredient in glazes gives the glaze it’s glossy appearance.
What is Silica?
Using a straight edged ruler to draw a tool up along the side of a piece of pottery to leave a carved or pressed in line on the surface of the pottery.
What is Fluting?
The mineral that gives some clay bodies their reddish color.
What is Iron?
A flat thin image that is pressed onto glaze-ware and fired to a very low firing temperature to fuse with the glaze.
What is a Ceramic Decal?
Shelves, Posts, and Stilts are all considered this.
What is Kiln Furniture?
Three different ways that glaze can be applied to a piece of pottery.
What are Painted, Dipped, Poured, Sprayed
These Glazes have little crystals that burst into textured spots of color.
What are Jungle Gems or Crystaltex Glazes.
Finely ground up pieces of Bisque-ware clay that are added back into the plastic clay to add strength to the clay body.
What is Grog?
A tool that is held against a piece of pottery while it is spinning on the wheel leaving a textured surface.
What is the Steve Tool Or Chattering Tool?
Low Fired Clay gets fired to this kiln temperature.
What is 1880 degrees Fahrenheit or Cone 04/06?
This white powdery substance can be mixed with water and painted onto the kiln shelves to keep glaze drippings from sticking.
What is Kiln Wash?
Five techniques that can be used or combined to create a piece of ceramics.
Bonus Question for an Extra Point:
A relatively new and modern technique for creating ceramic art.
What are Pinching, Coil Construction, Slab Construction, Throwing on the Wheel, and Slip Casting
Bonus: What is 3D Printing