General Art Questions
Ceramic Materials
Ceramic Techniques
Ceramic Tools
Ceramic Potpourri
100
The surface quality of an object, such as rough or smooth.  (What we used found objects for)
What is texture?
100
A mixture of water, ground stone, minerals, "dirt" and glass. 
What is clay?
100
This must be done to clay to remove air pockets before using it.  
What is wedging?
100
This is the "oven" used to "bake" the clay. 
What is a kiln?
100
This is the process of re-soaking dry clay, then letting it dry out again to become usable clay.  
What is recycling or reclaiming?
200
Red, Yellow, and Blue are known as this.
What are the primary colors?
200
The "paint" made of colorants and glass used to finish ceramic pieces.  
What is glaze?
200
The process used to attach two pieces of clay. 
What is scoring and slipping?
200
These two tools are used to make a piece of clay flat.
What are a rolling pin and slats?
200
When you "cook" or "bake" clay in the kiln, it is called this.  
What is to fire?
300
Green, Orange and Violet are known as these.  
What are secondary colors?


300
This is a very watery version of clay that is used for patching, smoothing, and attaching pieces of clay. 
What is slip?
300
To make this, you must first start from a ball of clay, and then press or pinch one side in.  
What is a pinchpot?
300
This tool is used to slice big pieces of clay off from a larger chunk (Miss Miller uses this to hand out clay)
What is a wire tool?
300
This is the stage of unfired clay where it is the MOST fragile.  
What is bone-dry?
400
This is a pattern or guide that you can use to make the same shape many times.  (What we used for the shape of our Quote vessels.)
What is a template?
400
This is the special ceramic material that keeps the heat inside the kiln.  It is designed to withstand very high temperatures.  
What is firebrick?
400
This will happen when the bottom of a clay project is glazed when placed in the kiln.  
What is stick?
400
This is a special kind of thermometer used in kilns.  It is make specially to withstand very high temperatures.  
What is a pyrometer?
400
Clay fired the first time is referred to as this.
What is bisqueware?
500
The name of the clay army, 8,000 strong, that is underground in China.     
What is the Terracotta Army or Terracotta Warriors?
500
These are used as supports between kiln shelves.
What is a post?
500
This will happen to clay if it is not dry (or too thick) when fired. 
What is explode?
500
We put these under our projects in the kiln so that they do not stick to the kiln shelves.  
What is a stilt/stilts?
500
This is a unit of measurement used for the kiln.  
What is a cone?
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