Color Theory
Red, Yellow, and Blue
What are the three primary colors?
Special type of oven only used for cooking clay and glaze
What is a kiln?
Solid coloring no white spots or transparency showing.
What is opaque?
This is a mark that moves across the page. Sometimes it can be horizontal, vertical, straight, curvy, or zig-zagged
What is a line?
A drawing or painting of a person or people
What is a portrait?
Colors that are blues, greens, and purples
What are cool colors?
Liquid glass that comes in many colors and melts onto the clay to become dark and shiny.
What is glaze?
This word describes a color that is mixed with white to make it lighter
What is a tint?
This describes how something feels.
What is texture?
A painting of nature and the land such as the ocean, mountains, trees, and sky.
What is a landscape?
These are the three colors made from red, yellow, and blue.
What is green, orange, and purple?
A hand-building technique where a lump of clay is pressed with the thumb into the center of the ball. While turning the ball in one hand, the walls are pressed or “pinched” evenly with the thumb into the inside and the fingers on the outside.
What is Pinching? or What is a pinch pot?
The part of the picture that seems to be the farthest from the viewer.
What is the background?
Something that happens or appears in a regular and repeated way.
For example: circle, square, square, circle, square, square
What is pattern?
A two-dimensional artwork made with a dry medium such as pencil, charcoal, or crayon
What is a drawing?
ROYGBIV
What is Red, yellow, orange, green, blue, indigo, and violet?
A fluid suspension of clay in water used in combination with scoring to attach moist clay together.
What is slip?
What is gradation?
This describes when something repeats itself over and over again.
What is repetition?
Art that looks like real life.
What is realistic?
Colors opposite from each other on the color wheel
What are complimentary colors?
A method used to attach one piece of clay to another.
What is scratch to attach?
Trimming or cutting parts of your picture to make it more interesting.
What is cropping?
Element of art that refers to the degree and qualities of lightness or darkness
What is value?
A painting or drawing of inanimate objects often placed in an arrangement. Examples include flowers in a vase, fruit in a bowl, and bottles of wine
What is a still life?