Ceramics review with interactive questions.

Line

Color

Perspective

Texture

Balance

Emphasis

Texture

Unity

Bisque firing makes the clay strong but porous.

Glaze firing makes the clay non-porous and glass-like.

Bisque firing is done after glaze firing.

Glaze firing is necessary for the clay to accept the glaze.

Bisqueware is unfired clay, greenware is fired clay.

Bisqueware is hard and porous, greenware can be recycled.

Greenware is always bone-dry, bisqueware is always wet.

Greenware is used for glazing, bisqueware is not.

Pinching

Coiling

Slab

Throwing

Brushing

Dipping

Pouring

Spraying

A woven basket was lined with clay, caught fire, and the clay hardened in the basket form.

Clay was shaped and left in the sun to dry.

Clay was mixed with water and painted on walls.

Clay was thrown into a fire and turned into bricks.

Description

Analysis

Interpretation

Judgment

To mix clay and water

To fire pottery in a kiln

To allow the artist to view and decorate pots from all sides

To shape clay into molds

A slump mold is a concave support mold used to shape clay inside the mold.

A hump mold is also known as a drape mold and is convex.

You work inside a hump mold to shape the clay.

You work outside a slump mold to shape the clay.

It adds color to the glaze.

It makes the glaze shiny.

It stabilizes the glaze to keep it from running off the piece.

It increases the firing temperature.

Coil method

Slab method

Burnishing

Paddling

Paddling

Burnishing

Pulling

Coiling

Pulling

Burnishing

Paddling

Slab rolling

Line

Color

Pattern

Texture