Clay
The stage where clay is most moldable.
What is plastic?
The piece of equipment used to fire bisque ware.
What is a kiln?
The ancient technique of building vessels requiring the sculptor to roll clay into tubes with their hands.
What is the coil?
This is the element of art being developed during the sculpting process. The element is used when the sculptor is working from 2D to 3D.
What is form?
Three of these should be applied to achieve a full coat of glaze.
What are layers?
This is a work of art where the viewer can move aroung the sculpture to view it from all sides.
What is a sculpture in the round?
The liquified form of clay used to join pieces together.
What is slip?
The inner structure of a form built by a sculptor inorder to stablize a large sculpture with delicate limbs.
What is an armature?
A sculpture that appears to be balanced on both sides.
What is symmetrical?
The part of the ceramic piece that sits on a flat surface and should not be glazed.
What is the base or foot?
The first firing clay stage.
What is bisque ware?
A techniuqe of building a hardened sculpute out of paper and a type of hardening agent.
What is paper Machet?
An ancient technique started on a circular stone used to achieve a round symmetrical piece of pottery.
What is wheel throwing?
A sculpture that appears to have an unbalanced look to it.
What is asymmetrical?
A work of art that is created to be used for somthing.
What is functional art?
The category of clay within the stages of: plastic, leather hard and bone dry.
What is greenware?
The wood tool that smooths a larger sectionon the surface of your clay.
What is a rib tool?
It is the first and most important step of throwing ceramics on a wheel.
What is centering?
An element of art added to the clay surface to change the way the sculpture feels.
What is texture?
A work of art created for conceptual or aesthetic reasons only.
What is nonfunctional art?
I will achieve the best detail if I carve into the clay at this stage.
What is leather-hard?
A ceramics tool used to subtract clay from a mass of clay.
What is a loop tool?
This type of sculpture was created by Alexander Calder and it is a type of art that physicly moves in some way.
What is Kinetic art?
A repetitive element of art used to create interest, variety, and movement.
What is pattern?
The task of taking away clay to develope detail on a sculpture.
What is subtractive?