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The actual color of a part of the color wheel

Ex. Red, Green, Blue

These are all hues

  • Hue

100

How much white is added to the hue; the lightness of the hue.

             Tint


100
  • Shade

  • How much black you add to the hue; how dark the hue is.

Shade

100
  • Deep color

Saturation

100
  • Monochromatic

  • use varying tints and shades of a single hue

Monochromatic

200


a color that lacks hue and saturation

Achromatic

200

uses three colors evenly spaced at

Triadic

200
  • any two hues situated directly opposite each other on the color wheel

Complementary

200

  • uses one base color and the two colors directly adjacent to its direct opposite (complement) on the color wheel

Split Complementary

200

groups of three to five hues situated adjacent to each other on the color wheel

Analogous

300


  • Primary Colors

basic sets of hues that cannot be created by mixing other colors together

300


hues created by mixing two primary colors in even proportions

Secondary Colors

300
  • created by mixing a primary color with an adjacent secondary color in equal parts

Tertiary Colors

300


  • the process of kneading clay to remove trapped air bubbles and ensure the material has a uniform consistency throughout

Wedging

300
  • unfired pottery (often called "greenware") that has had all of its physical moisture evaporate, leaving it feeling room temperature to the touch, highly fragile, and chalky

Bone Dry

400

the process of kneading clay to remove trapped air bubbles and ensure the material has a uniform consistency throughout

Hand building Construction

400


  • roll clay into long ropes and stack them to create vessels and sculptures

Coil Construction

400


  • a hand-building ceramic technique where clay is rolled into flat, even sheets and cut into shapes

  • Slab Construction

400


  • he process of shaping wet clay into symmetrical, hollow vessels (like mugs, bowls, and vases) on a spinning potter's

Wheel Throwing

400
  • a foundational ceramics technique used to securely join two separate pieces of clay together

Score and Slip

500


  •  water-based or oil-based media used for sculpting, molding, or pottery

Wet/Moldable

500


  • rolling clay into a ball, pressing your thumb into the center, and squeezing the clay outward while rotating

Pinch Pot

500
  • a specific stage in the drying process of ceramic clay, sitting between the wet, malleable state and the completely dry, rigid (bone-dry) phase

Leather Hard

500


  • clay pottery that has been fired in a kiln exactly once, but has not yet been glazed

Bisque/Bisqueware

500


  • Glaze is a glass-like coating applied to pottery to seal the surface, make it functional/food-safe, and add decorative color

Glaze/Glazeware