The History of Clay
What were the first things made out of clay?
What are human and animal figurines.
What is that stage of clay called where the clay has been partially dried out and easy to carve in?
What is leather-hard.
What is a kiln?
Where does clay come from?
What is the earth's crust, (the ground.)
What is the difference between clay and ceramics?
What is clay is still mold-able and ceramics have been fired and the kiln and is permanently hardened.
In what year did people start to use clay to make objects?
What is 24,000 BC.
Completely dried out clay that is ready to be fired.
What is green-ware.
What types of kilns are there - name at least 3?
What are small, medium, large. As small as a microwave or as large as building. There are kilns that are ran off of electricity, fire and gas.
Why do you store clay in a closed plastic bag?
What is you store clay in a plastic bag so that it doesn't dry out.
Why do you have to knead clay together?
What is to mix it together and eliminate air bubbles.
How did out ancestor's bake the clay thousands of years ago?
What is a fire.
The stage of clay that is bendable, mold-able and contains water. This is the stage we build items in.
What is plastic.
What happens to clay in the kiln if it has air bubbles in it?
What is the air will want to escape and crack or break the ceramic piece.
Why do you never glaze the bottom of a ceramic piece?
What is because it will melt and be stuck to the kiln shelf.
What is slip?
What is water down clay that acts as clay glue.
In 9,000 BC out ancestors start to use clay to create ceramic what?
What are bowls and vessels.
What is the last stage of clay?
What is glazen-ware.
How land does clay bake in a kiln?
What is 7 1/2 hours.
How many coats of do you paint on?
What are 3 coats.
What is scoring?
What is scoring is when you put little lines/hashtags in the clay to help hold clay pieces together.
What is usable art?
What are pieces of art that is created and can be used in our everyday life, bowls, plates, jars.
What is the stage of clay where it has been fired once and in now permanently hardened, (ceramics.)
What is bisque-ware.
At what temperature does clay bake in a kiln?
What is 2,000 degrees.
What 2 important things is glaze made of?
What are silica and metal.
What main 3 things does glaze do to ceramic art?
What is make its stronger, colorful, and waterproof.