General Art Questions
The surface quality of an object, such as rough or smooth.
What is texture?
A mixture of water, ground stone, minerals, "dirt", and glass.
What is clay?
The process used to attach two pieces of clay.
What is slipping and scoring?
This is the "oven" used to "bake" the clay.
What is a kiln?
This is the process of re-soaking dry clay, then letting it dry out again to become useable clay.
What is reclaiming?
Red, Yellow, and Blue are known as this.
What are the primary colors?
The "paint" made of colorants and glass used to finish ceramic pieces.
What is glaze?
The process of rolling a peice of clay into a snake like form.
What is coil?
The tool are used to make a piece of clay flat.
What are a rolling pin
When you "cook" clay in the kiln, it is called this.
What is firing?
Green, Orange, and Purple are known as these.
What are secondary colors?
This is a very watery version of clay that is used for patching, smoothing, and attaching pieces of clay.
What is slip?
The process of throwing clay to remove air bubbles
What is wedging?
Tool used for slicing off chunks of clay from larger blocks, and for cutting and removing pots from the pottery wheel head.
What is a wire cutter?
This is the stage of unfired clay where it is the MOST fragile.
What is Bone dry?
Space, Color, Value, Shape, Texture, Form, and Line are known as
What is the 7 Elements of art
The tool used to shape and smooth clay.
What is a rib?
What is pinch pot
The tool most used for slipping and scoring?
What is a needle tool?
Fired clay is referred to as this.
What is bisqueware?
How light and how dark something is, is called?
What is value?
The 3 types of clay
What is earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain?
What are 3 hand building pottery techniques
What is slab, coil, and pinch?
The tool used for trimming, hollowing out, and carving?
What is a loop tool?
Pottery is also called this
What is ceramics?