Color
Texture
Clay Terms
Shape/Line
Value
100
These are the Primary Colors.
What are Red, Blue and Yellow
100
This surface reflects bright light.
What is a shiny surface?
100
The art of using clay.
What is ceramics?
100
This type of shape is created using mathematical formulas.
What is a geometric shape?
100
This value technique uses intersecting or crossing lines to create different tones.
What is cross-hatching?
200
Colors made by mixing a primary and secondary color.
What are the tertiary or intermediate colors?
200
This surface reflects a soft, dull light.
What is a matte surface?
200
This is a type of construction that uses flat planes of clay to build.
What is slab construction?
200
This type of line creates a feeling of calm in the viewer.
What is horizontal?
200
This value technique uses parallel lines to create different tones.
What is hatching?
300
This is the brightness or dullness of a hue.
What is intensity?
300
A kind of visual texture that imitates real texture.
What is a simulated texture?
300
This is a type of construction that uses soft ropes of clay to build.
What is coil building?
300
This type of shape is irregular or uneven.
What is free-form or organic?
300
This value technique uses dots to create different tones.
What is stippling?
400
This is a color scheme made up of one color and the tints and shades of that color.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
400
A kind of visual texture that does not represent a real texture but creates a sensation of one by repeating lines and shapes in a 2-D pattern.
What is an invented texture?
400
This two things are used to create a stronger connection.
What are slip and scoring?
400
This type of line creates a feeling of tension in the viewer.
What is a diagonal line?
400
This value technique uses different layers and tones to build smooth values.
What is blending?
500
Colors that sit side by side on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
500
This is the illusion of a 3-D surface based on a memory of how things feel.
What is visual texture?
500
The oven used to heat clay.
What is a kiln?
500
This type of line is drawn quickly, freely and loosely.
What is a gesture line?
500
This is a light value of a color.
What is a tint?