zchs ceramics final 2025

loop tool

Used to gauge away clay

Needle tool

Used to poke holes and make thin incised lines

Sponge

Used to smooth clay and transfer water

Fettling knife

Used to cut slabs

Wooden knife

Round end for blending knife end for incising lines

Metal rib

Used to scrape round things

Wooden rib

Used to scrape flat things

Slip

Watery clay that’s used to connect things

plastic

Clay is moldable moist and soft “normal”

Leatherhard

Begins to get firm but you can still attach things and carve

Bone dry

Completely dry lost all moisture

Bisque

Fired once, back to rock like stage

pinch

object made by pressing thumb into clay and forming walls with thumb and finger

Slab

A flat even sheet of clay that are cut and slipped and scored together

Coil

Long strands of clay that get rolled then stacked and smoothed together

drape

Shaping clay my putting clay over a form and shaping it to it

LG glaze

Large variety of colors, high gloss glazes that blend when they touch

Element

Earthy colors slightly textured appearance less glossy

Underglaze

Can be used on green and bisque wear colors can be mixed matte

Speckled glaze

High gloss mixable colors with specks of color

Alumina

Stabilizer and stiffens glaze

Silica

glass former melts to create surface

Flux

Determines the melting temperature

Crawling

Looks like glaze is trying to separate due to dirt, formula issue or too thick

Crazing

Tension cracking that occurs when glaze shrinks faster then clay

Pinholes

Vapors get trapped then come out

Running

Glaze is too thick runs onto shelf

Rough surface

Means glaze wasn’t built up enough

What happens when clay dries?

It shrinks, gets harder, and changes color

Storage techniques

On newspaper on bat in plastic bag

Clay

Thing used to make projects. Muddish like earth material

Kiln

Oven like item used to take moisture out of clay

Firing

Process where Clay looses all moisture

Cone

Measurement of template used in kiln

Dry foot

Cleaning glaze off any surface that touches kiln

Greens are

Unfired clay ready to be fired

Bisqueware

Clay fired once

Glazeware

Ceramics objects that have been glazed then fired

wedging

Compressing clay removing air to improve plasticity

Line

On going one dimensional path of a point through space

Shape

Two dimensional enclosed space

Color

Derived from reflected light hue value intensity

Value

Lightness or darkness of a color or surface

Space

Feeling of depth, positive space areas with matter negative space are blank areas

Form

Three dimensional enclosed space

Texture

Quality of surface tactile or implied

Unity

A sense of oneness elements viewed as while

Balance

Visual equalization of elements

Emphasis

Dominance stressing one area to attract attention

Variety

Difference in kind or quality of parts to add interest

Rhythm

Combination of repeated elements with variations

Movement

Using elements to produce the look or feeling of action

Proportion

Size or quantitative relationship between part and whole

Repetition

Repeating a singular element multiple times

Artist statement process

What,how,why