Printmaking
Ceramics
Art Terms
Vocab
100

The name of the tool that applies ink to a printmaking block.

What is a brayer?

100

The type of clay we're using.

What is Earthenware?

100

Shading in one direction.

What is hatching?

100

Object use to sketch.

What is a pencil?

200

The kind of block we used for our printmaking assignment.

What is linoleum?

200

A rolled out, flat piece of clay.

What is a slab?
200

Shading in two different directions.

What is cross-hatching?

200

Object used to get rid of mistakes.

What is an eraser?

300

Writing any words or letters this way in order for them to be printed correctly.

What is backwards and reversed?

300

Making a bowl by pressing a hole in the middle of a ball of clay and working outward.

What is a pinch pot?

300

This type of art consists of just dots.

What is stippling?

300

Ceramic pieces that have no moisture inside are considered this.

What is bone dry?

400
The name of the tool to carve out our blocks.

What is a carving knife?

400

Rolling out clay into noodle like forms and building a structure.

What is coiling?

400

The movement artist Salvador Dali helped bring to the forefront of the art world.

What is surrealism?

400

Ceramics piece that is ready to go in the kiln is known as this.

What is greenware?

500

The country printmaking originated.

What is China?

500
Ensuring all the air bubbles are out of clay by using this technique.

What is wedging?

500

The art movement Andy Warhol and Keith Haring were famous in.

What is pop art?

500

Ceramic piece after it comes out of the kiln for the first time.

What is bisque ware?