art period 5 Flashcards
The clay is easily workable and bendable
Green Ware
The clay is still workable but is no longer bendable.
Leather hard
Clay is dry- no longer workable- at this stage it is ready to be fired
Bone dry
To create teeth on both sides of the clay
Score
Saturated clay that works as glue for the clay.
Slip
Cooking the clay/changing the clay’s chemical properties.
Firing
The machine you cook the clay in.
The machine you cook the clay in.
The first fire- clay reaches roughly 1900* - this is a low fire/half fired.
Bisque (▲05
A pot created by putting your thumb into the middle and pinching
around the sides/ the oldest form of pottery.
Pinch pots
An evenly rolled long narrow strip of clay- it resembles a snake.
Coils
An even flattened piece of clay.
Slab
Having height and width
2 Dimensions
Having height, width and dept
3 Dimensions
Carving or taking clay away from a sculpture.
Subtractive Sculpting
Adding clay to a sculpture.
Additive Sculpting