A thin, glassy layer on the surface of pottery. This makes a piece waterproof and safe to eat off of.
What is glaze?
100
Clay pieces are formed by pinching the clay with your fingers.
What is Pinch?
100
An oven like chamber that makes ceramic pieces permanent when heated to a high temperature.
What is kiln?
100
Spin the wheel at a moderate to fast speed. With wet hands and clay, use the left hand as a guide, and press down with the right hand, begin to force the clay to the center of the wheel. (pancaking and coning)
What is centering?
200
Clay has been fired in the kiln once at a low temperature. It is ready to be glazed.
What is Bisque ware?
200
At least this many coats of glaze must be applied for full coverage.
What is three?
200
Clay is rolled or pressed into a flat piece that is used to build the piece.
What is slab?
200
The proper place to store clay so that it retains moisture and remains workable.
What is a plastic bag?
200
Use your thumb to find the center of the clay and press down with the thumb, using your other hand to hold your thumb still. Be careful to leave enough clay for the bottom of the piece.
What is opening?
300
The stage after drying from the plastic state. It is firm enough to pick up without distorting, but still somewhat workable. It is cool and damp to the touch.
What is Leather Hard
300
This first technique involves attaching pieces of clay to your form. This second technique involves removing the clay from your clay piece by cutting away or carving.
What is additive and subtractive sculpture?
300
Clay is rolled into cylinders, or solid tubes. Coils are stacked and joined to create forms.
What is Coil?
300
Before using the clay, it is kneaded, worked by hand. The three reasons for doing this are to remove air bubbles, bring the clay to an even, workable consistency and to align clay particles.
What is Wedging?
300
Squeeze the clay between fingertips and in one motion, move fingers upward. Repeat until you get the desired thickness, usually about 1/4 inch.
What is pulling up the walls?
400
Wet, very flexible, workable, pliable.
What is Plastic?
400
Sculptural form in which designs are carved in a flat area of clay. The designs project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely.
What is relief?
400
Working clay on a pottery wheel.
What is throwing?
400
The proper way to join two pieces of clay together.
What is slip and score?
400
• The pot is thrown on what ______ speed and the pot is trimmed on ______ speed.
What is High and Low?
500
This is the most fragile, or brittle stage of clay.
What is bone dry clay?
500
Tactile feel or look of the surface of an object.
What is texture?
500
Creating clay pieces by hand using one technique or a combination of multiple techniques.
What is hand building?
500
This will happen to clay if it is not dry when fired.
What is explode?
500
When cleaning the wheel, these are the 4 of the 6 tools you leave in your bucket at the end of class.
What are the wood modeling tool, wooden rib tool, needle tool, mini sponge, wire tool, shovel tools?