Ceramics and Sculpture
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jennafinnis on January 20, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pinch | a hand building technique starting with a ball of clay; inserting you thumbs and pinching the clay to form thin even walls |
| coil | a hand building technique using rolled out ropes of clay; stacked in layers |
| slab | a hand bulding technigue made of thin sheets of clay |
| drape slab | a thin sheet of clay usually around of inside a bowl or plate to form a vessel |
| molding or modeling | using your hands to shape, bend, add, or remove clay |
| fire | the process of placing the pots in a kiln and heating to a high temperature that the clay becomes ceramic |
| kiln | a furnace in which pots are fired |
| underglaze | a commercially prepared mixture of "ceramic paint". Can be applied to both wet and dry greenware of bisqu ware. Does not run and is a generally true color when applied |
| bisque fire | purpose of this process is to render the object more durable, while leaving it porous engough to absorb glaze |
| glaze firing | fuses the glaze to together in combination with the surface of the clay body |
| gloss glaze | can only be applied to bisque piece, has matt to glosss finish |
| Impressions | a common techinque that uses pre-molded or found shapes pressind into wet clay to create an inverted image of the mold of the object |
| Incise | to cut into the clay; such as carving, inlay, Sgraffitto, etc. |
| Burnishing | to rub with a tool such as a spoon, rock, etc., to smooth or polish the surface of your pot |
| Sgraffitto | an early form of pottery decoration in which greenware is coated with colored slip of underglazes and then scratch off revealing the color of the clay |
| Wax resist | a method of decorating pots by appyling wax to the piece and glazing over; this can be done in one or more firing |
| Inlay | decoration used on greenwar when a design and/ or drawing is incised in the pottery and then filled in with contracting color slip; let dry. sand, and smooth |
| clay | particles of decomposed rock combied with water; a combination of decomposed rock including silica( sand) and alumina along with various minerals and decomposed matter |
| slip | made by mixing clay body with water; creates a glue to hold piees together |
| score | to make a series of shallow grooves in the edges of the clay to joiun two parts securly together |
| wedge | to work the damp clay witht the palms of the hands against a smooth surface |
| bat | a disk made out of matt board, paper, plaster, or plastic; used to work on |
| reclaim clay | clay which is made from bone dry scraps; smashed into powder, put in a bin with water and then put on a plaster bata and wedged into new clay |
| vessel | a hallow or concave utensil; as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase. ( mostly functional pieces) |
| freestanding | a scupture that stands alone and is visible 360 degrees and not attached to wall or structure |
| relief | a sculpture which remains attachd/ does not stand alone; has been incises, curved and/or added to. |
| Plastic | it is when the clay is soft and wet; you can 1) mold it/ shape it 2) paddle it 3) weld pices together(scoring only is nedded) 4) cut is 5) can incise it/ curve |
| Leatherhard | the stage of drying when the clay is no longer workable by hand; you can 1) can not mold anymore 2) can still paddle (best time) 3) weld by scoring and slipping 4) makes smooth: by sponging and burishing 5) can incise/ curve and scrape |
| bone dry | dompletely dry, without and moisture at all; you can 1) burnish 2) can scrape 3) can sand 4) can underglaze 5) now you can fire |
| greenware | clay pots which are airdried, but not yet fired |
| bisqueware | pieces that have been fired, no longer clay |
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