Intro to Art Semester 2 Study Guide

Match the clay stages

• Glazeware

• Watered down clay that acts like glue, has a sour cream consistency

• Slip

• Clay that has been fired once in the kiln, and can never be turned back into wet clay

• Bisqueware

• Clay that is dry and ready to be fired for the first time, also called greenware

• Bone Dry

• Best time to carve, has the consistency of leather or hard cheese

• Leatherhard

• Clay that has been fired a second time with glaze

Clay that you can easily mold and model

• Slip

• Plastic

• Leatherhard

• Bonedry

The process of bringing clay and glazes up to a specific temperature

Mixture of powdered materials made into a liquid, used to decorate a pottery piece and make food safe if needed

Oven for baking the clay, can get up to 2500 degrees or hotter

Reorder the steps below for the correct order for attaching two pieces of clay together.

• Smooth

• Slip

• Score

The process of removing air bubbles from your clay is

• Pressing

• pushing

• wedging

• priming

What happens when you leave air bubbles in your clay

• it dries out faster

• it explodes in the kiln

• it dissolves

• clay becomes slip

Match the following clay techniques with the images

• pinch pot

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• slab

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• coil

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How many minimum layers of glaze should you use to reach full opacity of color?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 5