The Stages of Clay
Pinch Pots: What are they?
General Art Questions
100

A soupy mixture of clay and water

Slip

100

What is added to a pinch pot to make it easier to hold?

A handle

100

What is the complementary color to blue?

Orange

200

The "inbetween" phase, where clay is not fully wet and is still not fully dry

Leather Hard

200

The outward projection of a vase under the neck or mouth

Shoulder

200

If I am looking at a set of railroad tracks, and seeing that they get smaller and closer together the further they are, I am experiencing _________

Perspective

300

The state in which we will be mainly working with clay

Plastic Workable

300

How do pinch pots usually start?

Pinch pots often start with a ball of clay, which is pushed into with thumbs to create a bowl like shape.

300

The best way to learn pottery is to first learn how to draw this 3-D shape

Cylinder 

400

Another word for Bone Dry, it is a phrase that starts with a color and describes the stage of clay with no moisture

Greenware

400

The outer edge of a rim

Lip

400

If I am making pottery on a spinning wheel, the word to describe my action is _________

HINT: This word describes something we do in a lot of different sports

Throwing

500

What is the word for clay that has already been fired, after it is bone dry

HINT: Starts with a B

Bisque Fired

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