General Art
The surface quality of an object, such as rough or smooth.
What is texture?
A mixture of water, ground stone, minerals, "dirt", and glass.
What is clay?
This is the stage of unfired clay where it is the MOST fragile.
This technique creates a long, flat piece of clay.
What is slabbing?
These colors include Red, Yellow, and Blue.
What are Primary Colors?
The "paint" made of colorants and glass used to finish ceramic pieces.
What is glaze?
The process of "cooking" the clay in the kiln.
What is firing?
The process used to attach two pieces of clay.
What is scoring and slipping?
These colors are Green, Purple, and Orange.
What are Secondary Colors?
This is a pattern or guide that you can use to make the same shape many times.
What is a template?
This type of clay is fired at a low temperature, and is used for a variety of hand building. It is not very durable but can be used for aesthetic designs.
This technique creates a round "pot" by using the fingers to squeeze and thin out the clay walls into a bowl-like shape.
What is a pinch pot?
This describes the temperature of the colors red, yellow, and orange.
A high temperature oven used to vitrify, or "fire" the clay.
What is a kiln?
This type of clay is fired at mid temperature and creates bisque ware that can be used for plates, cups, bowls, and other utilitarian ceramicware.
What is stoneware?
These two tools are used to make a piece of clay flat.
What is a rolling pin and dowels?
This describes the temperature of the colors purple, green, and blue.
What are cool colors?
This is a very watery version of clay that is used for patching, smoothing, and attaching pieces of clay.
What is slip?
A type of ceramic material, often called "china," known for its fine-grained, dense, and often translucent nature, made by firing clay at very high temperatures.
What is porcelain?
What is coiling?