Art Y08 Spr1

Question 1

4.1 pottery

Answer 1

Pots, dishes, and other articles made of fired clay. Pottery can be broadly divided into earthenware, porcelain, and stoneware.

Question 2

4.2 plastic

Answer 2

This term refers to clay that is mouldable and can be easily shaped.

Question 3

4.3 slip

Answer 3

Clay that has water added to it. It can be used to join clay together.

Question 4

4.4 bisque

Answer 4

Clay that has been fired in the kiln and is ready to be painted or glazed.

Question 5

4.5 leather-hard

Answer 5

Clay that is in the process of becoming dry. Clay in this state hold its own and is great for slab building.

Question 6

4.6 bone dry

Answer 6

Clay that is extremely dry and is in its most fragile state. It can be broken easily and it is ready to be fired.

Question 7

4.7 slip and score

Answer 7

The only way to attach 2 pieces of clay together.

Question 8

4.8 bas-relief

Answer 8

A term used to describe something sticking out from a surface.

Question 9

4.9 kiln

Answer 9

A furnace or oven for burning, baking or drying pottery.

Question 10

4.10 Sprigging

Answer 10

A way of applying low-relief decorative shapes to a pot

Question 11

4.11 score

Answer 11

The process of making marks such as hatching lines into the clay surface.

Question 12

What are the 4 stages to join clay?

Answer 12

Score, Slip, Stick, Smooth

Question 13

What are the 6 stages of clay?

Answer 13

Slip, Plastic, Leather Hard, Bone Dry, Bisqueware, Glazeware