Techniques
This technique require making scratches in pieces of clay to then be joined together.
What is scoring?
Considered the most basic, this element can be straight or curved, short or long.
What is line?
This principle of art refers to the use of elements to draw attention to a certain area, usually a focal point, in an artwork.
What is emphasis?
This Japanese ceramics tradition goes back centuries and involves adhering broken pieces of ceramics back together with metallic lacquer.
What is Kintsugi?
This sheet is important to fill out and even more important to turn in. If you don't, the teacher can't grade your project!
What is a rubric?
This technique is achieved by rolling clay against a flat surface until it becomes long and cylinder like.
What is coiling?
This element involves how light or dark something is.
What is value?
This principle of design gives the viewer the feeling as if all the parts of the composition are working together. It's complete and visually appealing.
What is unity?
This art form is one of the oldest human inventions, originating before the Neolithic period when humans first discovered clay in the earth.
What is ceramics?
If you leave the classroom to visit the restroom without one of these, no one will know whose class your missing out on!
What is a paint brush hall pass?
This technique is also used on bread and can be rather noisy. It is used to make the clay more malleable.
What is wedging?
There are so many of this element, yet some are blind to them.
What is color?
Synonymous with the term freeze frame, this principle of design can play out in both 2-D and 3-D. It also guides the viewers eye through the composition.
What is movement?
You can find a jar of paperclips and the turn in tray on this one persons desk.
What is the teachers desk?
This technique includes rolling out pieces of clay and then cutting out pieces and attaching them together to create pots, cups, and urns
What is slabbing?
An artist can use this element to express the way something might feel, for example, soft or jagged
What is texture?
This principle is the planned or random repetition of colors, lines, values, or textures and so on.
What is pattern?
Your graded assignments, art journals, and projects can easily be found in these little wooden compartments which are labeled with your names.
What are cubbies?
This technique requires you to roll clay into a ball and then using your fingers, carefully pull the clay out from it's center to create pots, cups, and bowls.
What is pinching?
This element is used to depict shapes that are three dimensional, for example, cubes, spheres, and cones.
What is form?
A feeling of this principle of design occurs when the elements are arranged asymmetrically or symmetrically to create the impression of equality in weight or importance.
What is balance?
In order to get approved to begin working, you must show the teacher these two completed things.
What are rough drafts and brainstorm sections of your rubric?