Stages of Clay
This stage of clay is the most fragile.
What is bone dry?
This is main danger of working with clay.
What is inhaling clay dust?
This is another name for color.
What is hue?
When you add white to a color you make this.
This is the very hot oven that is used to fire the clay.
What is a kiln?
This stage of clay is very wet and can be used to "glue" pieces of clay together.
What is slip?
This is what you want to avoid by washing the clay off of your hands in a tub.
What is clogging the drain?
These are the primary colors.
What is red, yellow, and blue?
When you add black to a color you make this.
What is a shade?
This is added onto bisque fired clay to make it waterproof and safe for eating.
What is glaze?
This stage of clay is when we can form the clay into sculptures, bowls or cups.
What is the plastic stage of clay?
You make this when you mix a primary color with a secondary color next to it.
What is an intermediate or tertiary color?
These are the secondary colors.
What are orange, green and purple?
These are four warm colors.
What are yellow, orange, red and pink?
This is the art of making things out of clay.
What is ceramics?
This stage of clay is part wet and part dry and can be carved or have things scratched into it.
What is the leather hard?
This is the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
These are colors across from each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
When making things out of clay, you can use this rule of thumb to help you remember the clay thickness that is best for a successful clay project.
What is no thicker than your thumb, no thinner than your pinkie?
These are the 4 S's which will help you remember how to attach your clay pieces well.
What is Scratch (or score), Slip, Stick, and Smooth?
What two clay stages can never go back to being soft clay that you can use make things with?
What are bisque and glaze stages of clay?
When you use one color plus black and white to make a painting, you are using this color scheme.
What is monochromatic color scheme?
These are colors next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
This can happen if your clay project is made too thick.
What is blowing up or breaking apart while being fired in the kiln.
This is the correct order for the six stages of clay that we learned in class.
What is slip, plastic, leather hard, bone dry, bisque, and glaze?