Year 8 Cycle Art Flashcards
What can Blended colours be used for?
Blended colours can be used to add light and dark to a drawing / painting.
What are the different handbuilding techniques?
There are 3 different handbuilding techniques- pinch, coil and slab.
Process
The steps or actions taken to create an artwork, from planning to the final piece.
Experimentation
The action or process of trying out new media, materials, ideas, methods, or activities.
Observation
Carefully looking at something to notice all the details, which helps when drawing or creating art.
Theme
The main idea or message of an artwork, like nature, love, or adventure.
Evaluation
Looking at an artwork to decide what’s good, what’s not, and how it can be improved.
Response
The way you react or feel about a piece of art, like what it makes you think or feel.
Opinion
What you personally think or feel about an artwork, whether you like it or not, and why.
Imagery
The pictures, symbols, or visuals used in art to express ideas or tell a story.
Exploration
Trying out different art styles, materials, or ideas to discover something new.
Technique
A special way of doing something in art, like how you paint, draw, or sculpt to make your work look a certain way.
Observational Drawing
Drawing a subject as accurately as possible.
Clay Ceramics
A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics. Ceramics = pots and other articles made from clay hardened by heat.
Hand- building
A ceramics technique that allows you to create forms with clay and your hands, without using a throwing wheel.
Slab
The slab building technique starts with smooth slabs of clay that are formed around moulds or shaped and cut by hand. The slabs are then layered. This technique is used to make more angular shapes that can’t be created on a wheel.
Coil
The process involves taking a small amount of clay, and then rolling it out on a flat surface until it forms a rope-like shape, called a coil. The coils are used as a way of building the ‘walls’ of the piece by being placed on top of each other, one layer at a time.
Pinch
The process involves shaping a ball of clay and then, by forcing the thumb into the centre, gradually pinching out the walls to an even thickness and the desired shape.
Kiln
A piece of machinery that essentially cooks the clay and turns it from clay to ceramic. The simple way to think of a kiln is that it is like an oven that gets REALLY HOT!
Bisque Fire
(or Biscuit Firing)
The first firing of ceramic ware to make it strong enough to handle conveniently.
Embellish
