Sculpture Terms
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hancan12345 on April 28, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Additive Sculpture | A process of adding clay to your piece to build up structure. |
| Modeling on | Adding clay in balls or pellets in the early stages of sculpting (Clay has to be wet to be able to stick to itself) |
| Subtractive Sculpture | Carving or taking away mass |
| Sculpting off | Removing clay |
| cutters | tools for removing clay |
| In the round | Sculpture that is completely free standing and finished |
| contrapposto | When the figure is posed with the weight of the body shifted on one foot |
| maquette | A small scale model for a finished sculpture |
| 3 main body masses | head, rib cage, pelvis |
| head heights | A way to measure the human body. A body is approximately 7-8 heads tall |
| glaze | Minerals and silica together to give color and shine. It "crawls" |
| underglaze | Minerals to give color. No shine, does not crawl. |
| Over glaze | Silica/glass to give shine. No color. Crawls slightly. |
| Crawling | When glaze heats up, turns to liquid, and then cools and hardens. |
| kiln | An oven or furnace for firing pottery. |
| Stilt | Holds up pottery that is glazed so that it does not stick to the kiln shelf. |
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