Clay
This process removes air bubbles from clay before building.
What is wedging?
These are the three primary colours.
What are red, blue, and yellow?
This item helps protect clothing.
What is an apron?
Artists should use this amount of paint on their brush to avoid wasting materials.
What is a blueberry sized amount?
The tactile feel or visual representation of a surface or object’s qualities
What is texture?
Clay should feel like this when you first take it fresh out the bag.
What is plastic?
These colours are made by mixing two primary colours together.
What are secondary colours?
This element of art is created when a point moves across a surface.
What is line?
This should be done immediately after painting to keep brushes in good condition.
What is cleaning the brushes?
This texture technique is made by rubbing paper over a rough surface using a drawing tool.
What is frottage?
This tool is often used to smooth clay surfaces.
What is a rib tool or sponge?
These two colours are directly across from each other on the colour wheel.
What are complementary colours?
This is the term for artwork that does not attempt to look realistic.
What is abstract art?
This painting technique uses thick layers of paint to create real texture on the canvas.
What is impasto?
This art technique is created by pressing paint between two surfaces and pulling them apart.
What is decalcomania?
Stage of the clay making process where the piece has been fired through the kiln once.
What is bisque-ware?
Why artists can’t make a true cyan by mixing blue and green paint together.
What is mixing colours lowers colour intensity?
Students should only use this tool when given permission to or for art references.
What is a phone?
This technique uses very little water and paint to create scratchy texture marks.
What is dry brushing?
This type of texture looks to have one texture but has a different one.
What is visual texture?
The reason why many artists try to make their clay pieces thin.
What is to prevent cracking or exploding in the kiln?
This term describes how colours interact with each other.
What is colour theory?
This process involves planning, experimenting, creating, and reflecting while making art.
What is the creative process?
This painting technique involves applying layer of paint over top a dry layer underneath, allowing the under to peak through.
What is scumbling?
This type of texture is created from the artist’s imagination instead of copying a real object.
What is invented texture?