Ceramics Terms

This material is made from eroding rock, water, and the earth's soil. It has plasticity to be able to form and shape your subject.

• Charcoal

• Acrylic Paint

• Clay

• Paper

Clay objects that permanently retain their shape after they have been heated to specific temperatures.

• Ceramics

• Pottery

• Fossils

• Concreate

Functional Ware, such as vases, pots, bowl or plates, shaped from moist clay and hardened by heat

• Concreate

• Pottery

• Soil

• Ceramics

A way of improving the workability of clay by reforming the mixture to make it homogeneous and even in texture while eliminating air bubbles

• Kiln

• Fire

• Slab

• Wedge

A structure or object build to fire clay at high temperatures

• Fire

• Wedge

• Kiln

• Soil

Heating pottery or clay sculpture to a temperature high enough to render it and durable

• Kiln

• Fire

• Wedge

• Fossils

A construction technique that involves squeezing the clay, usually between thumb and fingers

• Coil Method

• Slab Method

• Wheel Method

• Pinch Method

A clay method for attaching rolls of clay together to form pottery.

• Slab Method

• Coil Method

• Pinch Method

• Wheel Method

A constructional technique that involves shaping clay into a broad, flat thick piece

• Slab Method

• Wheel Method

• Coil Method

• Pinch Method

A constructional method to mold and shape the clay while sitting on a potter's wheel

• Pinch Method

• Slab Method

• Coil Method

• Wheel Method