Surface Design
All The Ways We Clay
Stages of Clay
Tools & Equipment
Caring for your Clay
100
Removing clay from the surface to create patterns or textures
What is carving?
100
Clay is rolled out dough-like, shapes are cut from it.
What is Slab?
100
This is fresh clay out of the bag. The clay is easily manipulated and bent.
What is Plastic Stage?
100
This tool is used to smoothly cut clay from the bag.
What is a wire cutter?
100
How should you store your clay to keep it soft and workable?
What is in a plastic bag on your shelf?
200
Made mostly of colored pigment and clay to add color to greenware or bisqueware
What is Underglaze?
200
Starting with a ball of clay, the potter opens a hole into the ball and forms a bowl through a series of techniques pinching and smoothing the clay.
What are Pinch Pots?
200
No moisture in the clay but has not been fired yet
What is the Bone Dry Stage?
200
What is a Rib?
200
How should you carry your project?
What is Carefully with TWO HANDS?
300
Connecting two pieces of clay using the score and slip method?
What is Attachment or Extension?
300
One of the oldest ways of forming pottery. Long strands of clay are formed and laid on top of each other, smoothing them into compressed walls.
What is Coil?
300
The clay when it is too firm to bend, and can be easily carved, and slip and scored together.
What is the Leather Hard Stage?
300
The furnace in which ceramics are fired.
What is a Kiln?
300
Should you touch another persons project?
What is ABSOLUTELY NOT?
400
These tools can be used to help create fine details on your projects surface
What are modeling tools?
400
This is the correct way of adhering clay to itself by using liquid clay as "glue"
What is Slip and Score?
400
Clay that has been fired once, but has not been glazed yet.
What is Bisqueware?
400
A cup of this will help you get rid of "clay boogers".
What is Water?
400
You need this to turn in your project
What is a Kiln Ticket?
500
A decorative technique where the underglaze surface of the clay is scratched or drawn into
What is Sgraffito?
500
The first written language captured on clay slabs
What is Sumerian or Cuneiform?
500
Any unfired piece ready or nearly ready for bisque.
What is Greenware?
500
At the beginning of any project, you need one of these.
What is a Plan?
500
No project is complete without...
What are your initials?