General Art Questions
The surface quality of an object, such as rough or smooth.
What is texture?
A mixture of water, ground stone, minerals, "dirt", and glass.
What is clay?
The process used to attach two pieces of clay.
What is slipping, scoring and blending?
This is the "oven" used to "bake" the clay.
What is a kiln?
This is a flat piece of clay called
What is a slab?
This ancient culture developed this coating for clay which would help seal it after it is burnished.
What is Ancient Greece?
The "paint" made of colorants and glass used to finish and give a waterproof seal.
What is glaze?
This is means "to scratch through".
What is Sgraffito?
These two tools are used to make a piece of clay flat.
What are a rolling pin and boards or guidesticks?
This is the process of re-soaking dry clay, then letting it dry out again to become useable clay.
What is recycling or reclaiming?
These are the 3 hand building techniques you learned this semester.
What are pinch, slab and coil?
This is a very watery version of clay that is used for patching, smoothing, and attaching pieces of clay.
What is slip?
A process of attaching more pieces of clay to create a texture or form.
What is additive sculpting?
This tool is used to slice big pieces of clay off from a larger chunk (hint: it's not green!).
What is a wire tool or cutting wire?
If a material is soft and moldable it is called this, whether or not is is clay or metal or some other material.
What is plastic?
This is what it is called when you wipe the bottom of your pottery free of glaze.
What is dry foot?
This is the special ceramic material that is a special kind of slip. This slip can be polished or burnished.
What is Terra Sigillata?
A process of removing clay to create form or texture.
What is subtractive sculpting?
This is the special kind of temperature gauge used in kilns. It is made to melt at a specific temperature and it tells the potter how hot the kiln is inside.
What is a pyrometric cone?
This is the stage of unfired clay where it is the MOST fragile.
What is bone-dry?
This is a pattern or guide that you can use to make the same shape many times.
What is a template?
This material can be painted on leather hard, bone dry or bisqued pottery to give it color and decoration. Hint...it is not a glaze.
What is a decorating slip?
This is what you do to Terra Sigillata to make it shiny. It also means "to polish".
What is burnish?
This is a type of knife used in pottery.
What is a fettling kinife?
First fired clay is referred to as this.
What is bisqued?