Stages of Clay
What is the stage of clay that is used to add two pieces of clay together?
Slip
What is Additive?
Where you add a piece of clay to another
How many coats of glaze should you add?
3-5
What do you need to do to add pieces together?
Slip and score
Blend the pieces together
Define Handbuilding
Handbuilding is an ancient pottery-making technique that involves creating forms without a pottery wheel, using the hands, fingers, and simple tools.
What is the stage of clay that allows you to build your projects?
Raw Clay
What is Subtractive?
It is where you take clay away from a project to add in designs
Where should you not glaze on a project?
On the bottom
How thick should your project be?
the thickness of a finger
No thinner than your pinky, no thicker than your thumb
Define Linear movement
Linear motion is the movement of an object in one dimension, from one place to another in a straight line.
What is the stage of clay that allows you add small details or add pieces together?
Leather Hard
How do you make a pinch pot?
By pinching a ball of clay until it forms the shape of a pot
How can you get glaze off of the project?
by wiping it away with a wet sponge or paper towel
What should you do to your clay before you begin building?
Wedge the clay
Define ornamentation
things added to something to provide decoration.
What is the stage of clay that your project is completely dry?
Bone Dry
by rolling out the clay with your hands so that it forms a rope like shape
What happens to glazes when they are fired?
It turns to a glass like coating
The colors become brighter and more vivid.
How can you keep the lid of a project from sticking to the bottom when drying?
put paper towel between them
Define Kiln
a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery.
What is the stage of clay that is when the clay has been fired once?
Bisqueware
What are 4 ways to create a successful slab project?
By planning and measuring
By using a template
By adding coils into all of the joints
By adding the pieces together when they are leather hard
Define Glaze
A thin coating of glass which is developed in clayware by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials.
What do you do when you are done building? And what can happen if you keep trying to build after?
Let the project dry
It can break
Define Greenware
unfired pottery.