Art period 1 Flashcards
When the clay is easily bendable and workable it’s called
green ware
When the clay isn’t bendable but still workable it’s called
Leather hard
When the clay isn’t workable anymore and ready to be fired up it’s called
Bone dry
Creating teeth on both sides of the clay is called
scoring
Saturated clay that works as glue for the clay
slip
Cooking the clay and changing it’s properties is called
Firing
The machine you cook the clay in
Kiln
The first fire when the clay reaches roughly 1900* is called
Bisque
A pot created by putting your thumb in the middle and pinching the sides.
Pinch pot
an evenly rolled long strip of clay kind of like a snake
coil
a even flattened piece of clay
slab
having height and width
2 dimensions
having height width and depth
3 dimensions
Carving or taking clay away from a sculpture is called
Subtract sculpting
adding clay to a sculpture
additive sculpting