General
Soft, moist, earthy material that is made from eroded rocks
What is Clay?
Pinch, Coil, Slab Throw
What are the Hand building Techniques?
Slip, Plastic, Leather Hard, Bone Dry, and Bisque
What are the 5 stages of clay?
To make flat slab pieces of clay
What is a Rolling Pin used for?
Scratch and Attach with Slip
How do you combine two pieces of clay?
The process of kneading the clay to get all the air bubbles out
What is Wedging?
Pressing a ball of clay with the thumb and shaping with the help of fingers and thumbs.
How do you make a Pinch Pot?
When some of the moisture has gone out of the clay, but it is still carveable
What is Leather Hard?
To trim, carve, cut and design the clay
What are needle tools used for?
Clay takes about two weeks to do this
How long does it take for clay to dry out?
Glaze
Method of using clay to create long cylinder pieces of clay.
What is the Coil method?
A piece of pottery that has not been in the kiln yet
What is Bone Dry?
What is a Loop Tool used for?
a Japanese style of pottery where clay is taken out of the kiln when it is glowing red and put into a combustible environment
What is Raku?
A large oven that heats up the clay
What is a Kiln?
A technique involves rolling out clay to an even thickness then cutting shapes, folding, bending, manipulating and joining together to form a finished object.
What is the Slab technique?
When the pottery has been in the kiln once.
What is Bisque?
To cut the clay in half
What is a wire tool used for?
A type of clay that is white
Porcelain
No thicker than your thumb and no thinner than your pinkie
How thick should your clay be when making a ceramic piece?
The technique that is created with a potters wheel
When the clay is most flexible
A revolving disk on which wet clay is shaped into pots or other round ceramic objects.
Shape, Form, and Texture
What elements of art are focused on when working with clay?