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COLOR
CLAY
TOOLS
TECHNIQUES
POTPOURRI
100
Color scheme made up of greens, blues and violets.
What is a cool color scheme?
100
Soft, moist clay that is easy to bend and shape.
What is plastic clay?
100
Of the following, this is the softest and darkest pencil: 4H, 2B, 6B
What is 6B?
100
An artwork that, if split down the middle, has two sides that are a mirror image of each other.
What is symmetry?
100
A picture you make of or about yourself.
What is a portrait?
200
Green, orange and violet
What is a triad OR secondary colors
200
Clay that has a lot of moisture in it but can't be bent without breaking it.
What is leather-hard clay?
200
A series of boxes that go from the darkest to the lightest values that can be made with a pencil.
What is a value scale?
200
You make it by using a ruler to create rows and columns of boxes that are the same size for scaling an image up or down.
What is a grid?
200
Keeps a hollow form of clay from exploding in the kiln.
What is poking a hole through the clay to the air inside.
300
Colors that are side-by-side on the color wheel and share a hue.
What are analogous colors?
300
Stage of clay that is the most fragile.
What is bone-dry clay?
300
A small window shape cut into a piece of paper or other material that helps decide where shapes are in a composition.
What is a view finder?
300
The area around what you are drawing, often the background found around the image instead of the image itself.
What is negative space?
300
When you press your pencil too hard into your paper so an indentation is made.
What is incising?
400
Grey, white and black
What are neutral colors?
400
Clay work that is finished but not yet fired. It can be wet or dry.
What is greenware?
400
What a kiln does to clay.
What is fire?
400
A verbal or written discussion and judgment of an artwork.
What is a critique?
400
The texture of paper.
What is tooth?
500
Three colors that are an equal distance from each other on the color wheel.
What is a triad?
500
The special oven that heats clay to high temperatures and makes it less porous.
What is a kiln?
500
A thin, watery clay used like a kind of glue to hold pieces together.
What is slip?
500
Three elements of art.
What are line, shape, color, texture, value, form and space. (Name 3)
500
A technique of joining two pieces of clay by roughing up part of each piece and adding thin clay before pressing the parts together.
What is the score and slip technique?