Kilns and Firing
A furnace or oven used to heat clay
What is a kiln?
Adding too much water
What causes collapsing over night?
This element of art refers to how something actually feels or is implied to feel by how it looks.
What is texture?
This stage of the clay cycle comes 1st
What is slip?
This machine is used to create flat and uniform pieces of clay:
What is a slab roller?
These kilns are modern and the most widely used.
What are electric and gas?
To avoid curling and warping slabs, you will need to control this aspect of the clay.
What is the drying time and evenness?
This element of art consists of a series of lines, colors, shapes, or other forms repeated over and over in a planned design. Your elementary teachers may have introduced this concept with an "ABAB" or "ABBA" one of these.
What is pattern?
This lip product is poppin', this lip product is cool, this lip product sounds like the glaze finish that is smooth and shiny.
What is glossy?
The insulation used in modern kilns is made from this, much different than the kind used to build houses.
What are fire bricks?
Being fired once at a low temperature turns clay into this, the 5th stage of the clay cycle.
What is bisque?
If you try to connect clay of different consistencies, this is a likely result.
What are cracks at the seams?
This is a state of equilibrium of equal visual weight in an art work has the same name as something you wouldn't want to lose while ice skating.
What is balance?
This glaze ingredient gives glaze its hardness and durability.
What is alumina?
These clay pieces are for the clay sculptures and other projects to be stacked inside the kiln and sounds like the popular American _______ Warehouse that you might get a cozy new sofa at.
What is kiln furniture?
A common temperature for this type of initial, relatively low temperature firing is 06.
What is bisque?
Inconsistent thickness in the walls of a pinch bowl is generally caused by this impatient and uncontrolled action.
What is pinching too fast and with uneven pressure.
The teapot final had sculptural elements to it, but because it is utilitarian or useful, it also belongs to this theory of art.
What is Functional/Functionalism?
This specific clay is white in color and fires to the highest temperature.
What is porcelain?
This kiln related tool can be broken down into word parts that mean "fire" and "measure", which hint to its job of indicating temperature when firing.
What is a pyrometric cone?
Kilns fired to cone 5-10 are referred to as this range, similar to the elevation of a mountain range.
What is high fire?
Leather hard is the perfect stage for attaching clay pieces in this construction method.
What is stiff slab construction?
This art element refers to any object that has the 3 dimensions of height, length, and width. Don't confuse it with its 2 dimensional cousin commonly used in its place.
What is form?
This is the naturally occurring substance known as clay that is then mixed with different ingredients to accomplish specific goals.
What is a clay body?
This tool was not used in class this semester, but operates similarly to a playdoh ice cream maker because it forces clay through a die to produce clay shapes.
What is an extruder?