General Art Questions
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General Pottery Questions
100

The surface quality of an object, such as rough or smooth.

What is texture?

100

A mixture of water, ground stone, minerals, "dirt", and glass.

What is clay?

100

The process used to attach two pieces of clay.

What is slipping and scoring?

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 useable clay.

What is 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 of rolling a peice of clay into a snake like form.

What is coil?

200

The tool are used to make a piece of clay flat.

What are a rolling pin

200

When you "cook" clay in the kiln, it is called this.

What is firing?

300

Green, Orange, and Purple 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

The process of throwing clay to remove air bubbles

What is wedging?

300

Tool used for slicing off chunks of clay from larger blocks, and for cutting and removing pots from the pottery wheel head.

What is a wire cutter?

300

This is the stage of unfired clay where it is the MOST fragile.

What is Bone dry?

400

Space, Color, Value, Shape, Texture, Form, and Line are known as

What is the 7 Elements of art

400

The tool used to shape and smooth clay.

What is a rib?

400
Rolling clay into a ball and squishing all sides to form a vessel. 

What is pinch pot

400

The tool most used for slipping and scoring?

What is a needle tool?

400

Fired clay is referred to as this.

What is bisqueware? 

500

How light and how dark something is, is called?

What is value?

500

The 3 types of clay

What is earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain?

500

What are 3 hand building pottery techniques 

What is slab, coil, and pinch?

500

The tool used for trimming, hollowing out, and carving?

What is a loop tool?

500

Pottery is also called this

What is ceramics?

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