Chapter 5 Flashcards
Incising
Cutting onto the surface of the clay. You can carve or remove whole parts o the surface.
Impressing
Press with a lol into a clay surface and the texture or mark is left on e clay becomes a low relief of your tool
Applique
Applying on piece of clay onto another. Ex: coils
Piercing
Decorative technique used to create dramatic effects by playing with light and the contrast between inside and outside surface
Burnishing
Ancient method of finishing an unglazed leather -hard pot. Involves rubbing its surface smooth with a stone or the back of a spoon
Colored clay
The color of any ceramic piece depends on the clay it was made from and the temperature it was fired at.
Inlaying
Impressed or incised marks with soft clay of contrasting color or with colored slip.
Oxides and carbonates
Basic metals combined with oxygen or carbon
Colored slips
A slips hat is mixed with extremely fine clay with water
Bisque ware
Been fired once
Underglaze
Painting on the surface of green ware or bisque ware
Green ware
Pottery that’s never been fired
Sponging
Gives different textures and depth of color when daubed onto surface clays
Splattering
Using a toothbrush and flicking it to create a splattered background
Brushes
Fishes details on top of backgrounds
Masking
Stencils can enclose or outline background shapes or foreground designs
Paper resist
Cut shapes or patterns from damp papers and lay these Charles on a clay surface
Wax resist
Use melted wax or glue thinned with water to resist the color of the glaze
Slip trailing
Squeezing a line of slip onto damp clay to produce a raised line
Jolene zanghi
Slip trail designs
Sgraffito
Technique involves scratching designs in colored slip to reveal the color of the clay body beneath
Mishima
A pattern or design is incised or cared into e surface
Transfer printing
A pattern or design etched onto a copper plate, inked with a mixture or oil or color and transferred to a pottery tissue
Mono print
Single print
Photo emulsions
Artist applies a photo emulsion to e surface of glazed and fired clay
Silica
Glaze known as the glass former. Mad rout of sand and flint
Flux
Glaze known as the temperature reducer
Alumina
Glaze known as the stabilizer
Lusters
Translucent, allowing the color of e glaze to shine through
China paints and enamels
Matte glossy finish
Metallic lusters
Opaque, used to compliment e glazed surface
Majolica
Painting a colored glaze on top of the base coat before the piece has been fired
Dipping
Dipping the pottery so at it is glazed
