Coil pots
Coiling is a type of potter
Subtractive
A process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combinations of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights
Slab pottery
A method of making pottery in which thick, plat plate to clay is cut into shapes which are joined
Relief sculpture
Type of structure in which forms project from a flat background
Freestanding sculpture
Work of art surrounded on all sides by space. Three dimensional work of art
Kiln
A furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery
Bisque fire
First firing at a lower temperature to make pots less fragile during glazing
Glaze fire
A cycle during which glaze materials are heated sufficiently to melt, forming a glassy surface
Greenware
Unfired pottery
Leather hard
The clay is still visibly damp but has dried enough to be able to be handled without deformation
Slip
Liquefied suspension of clay particles in water
Aesthetics
The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of art and with judgements concerning beauty
Elements of art
Color, line, shape, space, form, texture, value
Principles of art
Rhythm, movement, balance, proportion, unity, variety, emphasis, harmony, contrast
Craftsmanship
The quality of design and work shown in something made by hand; artistry
Assemblage
An artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate
Medium
The materials that are used to make a work of art
Exposed coil pots
Coils that don't get smoothed out when you are making a coil pot
Feet on pottery
Base of the ceramic form
Sgrafitto
a form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color, typically done in plaster or stucco on walls, or in slip on ceramics before firing.
Paper resist
Decoration technique where strips of moist or adhesive paper are adhered to the surface to resist application of slip or glaze
Impressing
Decorating technique where textured or patterned material or object is pressed into clay surface
Unity
When all of the elements of a piece combine to make a balanced, harmonious, complete whole
Pattern
An underlying structure that organizes surfaces or structures in a consistent, regular manner
Symmetry
the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
Iridescent
Shining with many different colors when seen from different angles
Intermediate colors
Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow- Green, Blue-Green, BlueViolet, and Red- Violet. Made by mixing primary and secondary colors
Complimentary colors
Colors directly opposite of each other in the color spectrum
Etching
engrave by coating it with a protective layer, drawing on it with a needle, and then covering it with acid to attack the parts the needle has exposed, especially in order to produce prints from it.
Flux
The action or process of flowing. Put on solder so it flows
Tinning
To cover with a thin layer of tin
Soldering
Join with solder
Wood burning
The art process of burning a design usually on wood or leather especially with an electrically heated tool
Armature
A metal framework on which a sculpture is molded with clay or similar material
Underglaze
A color or design applied to pottery before it is glazed
Crazing
Produces a network of fine cracks on the surface of a material, for example in a glaze layer
Vessel
Hollow utensil, such as a cup, vase, or pitcher, used as a container, especially for liquids