Techniques
This ceramics techniques is also done to bread and involved throwing a hunk of clay down and kneading it with your fingers in order to make it more malleable.
What is wedging?
Considered the most basic, this element can be straight or curved, short or long.
What is line?
This principle of art refers to the use of elements to draw attention to a certain area, usually a focal point, in an artwork.
What is emphasis?
This is considered one of the first known human inventions.
What is pottery or ceramics?
This sheet is important to fill out and even more important to turn in. If you don't, the teacher can't grade your project!
What is a rubric?
The purpose of this ceramics technique is to cut or scratch a notches or lines into clay in order to adhere different clay pieces together.
What is scoring?
This element involves how light or dark something is.
What is value?
This principle of design gives the viewer the feeling as if all the parts of the composition are working together. It's complete and visually appealing.
What is unity?
This art form originated in Japan back in the 15th century and involves fixing broken pottery with a metallic lacquer.
What is Kintsugi?
If you leave the classroom to visit the restroom without one of these, no one will know whose class your missing out on!
What is a paint brush hall pass?
This ceramics technique requires one to roll out long, snake-like pieces of clay, typically used to create a unique type of pot.
What is coiling?
There are so many of this element, yet some are blind to them.
What is color?
Synonymous with the term freeze frame, this principle of design can play out in both 2-D and 3-D. It also guides the viewers eye through the composition.
What is movement?
Pottery and ceramics have been found at many archaeological sites throughout history and is known to last for thousands of years because it is so ________ .
What is durable?
You can find a jar of paperclips and the turn in tray on this one persons desk.
What is the teachers desk?
This technique requires one to first roll a piece of clay into a ball and then, using your fingers, pull and form walls in a circular fashion.
What is pinching?
An artist can use this element to express the way something might feel, for example, soft or jagged.
What is texture?
This principle is the planned or random repetition of colors, lines, values, or textures and so on.
What is pattern?
The oldest known ceramic artifact is dated as early as 28,000 BCE (BCE = Before Common Era), during the late Paleolithic period and is a statuette of a ________ .
What is a woman?
Your graded assignments, art journals, and projects can easily be found in these little wooden compartments which are labeled with your names.
What are cubbies?
This ceramics technique involves the sharpest clay tools to remove bits of clay away from an object in order to create some sort of design, pattern, etc.
What is carving or needling?
This element is used to depict shapes that are three dimensional, for example, cubes, spheres, and cones.
What is form?
A feeling of this principle of design occurs when the elements are arranged asymmetrically or symmetrically to create the impression of equality in weight or importance.
What is balance?
A great part of the history of pottery is _________, meaning that it is part of past pre-literate cultures.
What is prehistoric?
In order to get approved for final draft paper, you must show the teacher these two completed things.
What are rough drafts and brainstorm sections of your rubric?