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Surface and Glaze
Principles of Design
Working with Clay
Clay Life Cycle
Random Ceramics Stuff
100
The reason why the bottom of a pottery piece must be free from glaze.
What is melting glaze fusing a clay piece to the kiln shelf.
100
The principle of design that guides the viewer's eye to one specific area or portion of a work of art.
What is emphasis?
100
Proper wall thickness measurement.
What is 1/4 inch?
100
The wettest form of clay.
What is slip yo?
100
The name of the piece of equipment used to fire clay work.
What is the kiln?
200
The main method of properly glazing pieces throughout this semester.
What is brushing on two to three coats of glaze.
200
The use of a repeating shape(s) or design.
What is pattern.
200
The method of attaching two pieces of leather hard clay.
What is scoring and slipping?
200
After this point clay can no longer be recycled.
What is bisque firing?
200
Two reasons why a clay piece may explode in the kiln.
What is too much moisture or a trapped air bubble.
300
The difference between engobe and glaze.
What is engobe is pigmented clay slip and glaze is made from silicate particles and minerals.
300
The placement of texture, line, shape, color or any other visual effect that draws an emphasis to one area or another of a work of art.
What is visual weight.
300
Kneading clay in order to redistribute particles and assure an equal distribution of elasticity throughout the clay body.
What is wedging?
300
Another name for bone dry clay.
What is greenware?
300
The reason why you cannot fire clay pieces in your oven at home.
What is an inability to reach proper firing temperatures.
400
A method of surface design created by carving through a layer of engobe in order to reveal the color of the natural clay beneath.
What is sgraffito?
400
The use of leading lines that clearly draw the viewer's eye from one area of a piece to another.
What is movement?
400
The first and most difficult step of wheel throwing.
What is centering?
400
State of clay in which building attaching and carving is easiest.
What is leather hard?
400
The fate of Ryan Demers' incredible goat head sculpture.
What is the ruthless and savage roadside smashing done by one Collin Loring?
500
Two main components of 'surface integrity'.
What is surface design that compliments form and no unintentional marks.
500
Name at least 4 principles of design.
What is movement, unity, pattern, emphasis, balance, repetition, proportion, variety, rhythm
500
Two reasons why a clay project might crack.
What is a lack of compression or a lack of moisture?
500
What clay becomes after it has been fired.
What is the bisque ware?
500
The four grading competencies in this course.
What is creating, presenting, connecting and responding?