Tools
Name two things that a sponge is used for.
1. Wetting clay?
2. Drying clay?
3. Smoothing clay?
This type of technique adds clay to create designs.
What is an additive technique?
This is the famous blue and white pottery from China.
What is Ming Pottery?
This part of the wheel controls its speed.
What is the pedal?
The difference between glaze and underglaze.
What is one is for bisque fire and one is for bone dry?
This small rounded wooden tool is used to smooth edges and surfaces.
What is a rib?
This technique is used when attaching pieces of clay to each other.
What is scratch-and-slip?
This is how one would use print-making with clay.
What is drawing on a piece of paper in ink and rubbing the ink design onto a slab of clay.
This is made on the wheel using a plastic tube.
What is a plate?
This is why you should never put clay into a ball after messing up.
What is because clay has memory?
This tool is used to cut clay.
What is a toggle-wire?
This subtractive technique creates designs in leather-hard clay.
What is sgraffito?
The country where an emperor was buried with a clay army.
What is China?
This is the first step when throwing on the wheel.
What is wedging the clay?
This is the most important thing to do before taking a piece of art home.
What is turn in a photo of it to Canvas?
This tool is used for trimming pieces, scratching clay, and making designs.
What is a pin tool?
Name one way to make a bowl that's NOT on the wheel.
1. Slump molds
2. Pinch pots
3. Coil bowls
The Spanish artist famous for surrealism.
Who is Salvador Dali?
This is the step that occurs on the wheel when the clay is leather-hard.
What is trimming?
Name at least 5 stages of clay.
1. Slip/slurry
2. Plastic
3. Leather-hard
4. Bone-dry
5. Bisqueware
6. Glazeware
This tool is used to make sure that pottery being glaze-fired doesn't stick to the kiln.
What is a stilt?
This subtractive technique carves designs into clay and fills them with glaze.
What is mishima?
Where and when pottery was invented.
What is (Jiangxi) China, 18,000 BCE.
The most important step in making a piece of wheel-thrown pottery symmetrical.
What is centering?
This happens to organic matter when it is fired in a kiln.
What is it turns black?