Camp Mudhead

Clay Tools

100

This tool features a serrated edge. Great for scoring clay as well as creating designs and patterns.

Serrated Rib Tool

200

A tool used for cutting clay, especially for cutting clay from large blocks and for cutting pots off the wheel or bats after throwing.

Wire Cutters

300

A tool used to remove controlled amounts of clay. Can also be used for carving clay away from the surface to create fun designs or patterns.

Loop Tool

400

A piece of studio equipment that rolls out perfect slabs of clay for hand-building pottery and ceramics.

Slab Roller

500

Long, needles set into wooden, metal, or plastic handles. They are one of the most versatile tools used in making pottery. They are used for cutting, piercing, incising, measuring depth, scoring, and finishing fine details.

Needle tool

Stages of Clay

100

Clay has begun to dry out and can no longer be formed or molded but the surface can easily be carved

Leather hard

200

The name of the first firing

Bisque

300

Clay that has been completely air dried  and is ready to go to the first kiln firing

Bone dry

400

This is a very watery version of clay that is used for patching, smoothing, and attaching pieces of clay.

Slip

500

Any pottery that has not been bisque fired

Greenware

Clay Terms/Techniques

100

A method of building that involves rolling the clay into long snake-like pieces

Coil building

200

A method of joining two pieces of clay together using slip and a serrated rib

Scoring and slipping (or scratch and attach)

300

What are the 3 ways to make a slab?

Slab Roller, Throwing the clay, Rolling pin

400

If you want to create a solid-looking shape, you need to make sure to do this to let air escape

Create an air hole/ hollow it out

500

A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color

Sgrafitto

Materials

100

A mixture of water, ground stone, minerals, "dirt", and glass.

Clay

200

What protective layer do you use to put clay through the slab roller

Canvas

300

What do you do after you have finished dunking your piece into a glaze

Wipe the bottoms!

400

A sometimes glassy coating on ceramics. It is used for decoration, to ensure the item is impermeable to liquids, and to minimize the adherence of pollutants.

What is Glaze

500

Colorful bottles of clay slip that we use to add colors to our clay

Underglaze

Things about your instructors

100

What is Frankie's sign?

Virgo

200

What is Grace's sign?

Pisces

300

What was the animal that Grace was building the first week of class?

A tortoise/turtle

400

What program are Grace and Frankie currently in?

The Resident artist Program

500

How many pinch pots did Frankie make during camp?

9