Creative Sculpture & Ceramics - Exam Review

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  1. 2. A glass layer used to decorate your clay. Changes color in the kiln.
  2. 4. Raises your clay up in a kiln to keep it from sticking to the bottom of the kiln.
  3. 6. The tool with a half circle used for smoothing the surface of your clay.
  4. 11. A type of clay that is used in architecture, pottery and sculpture. Brownish red. High porosity.
  5. 12. The tool with a metal oval shape used for smoothing your surface of your clay.
  6. 13. The 2nd firing after glaze has been added.
  7. 15. The 1st Firing that makes your clay ready for glaze
  8. 18. A type of large oven used for making clay objects hard after they have been shaped
  9. 20. Clay that is capable of being molded or formed (soft, malleable)
  10. 22. Clay is constructed but unfired.
  11. 23. Glaze has this finish.
  12. 25. A small square used to show the difference between a glaze color before and after the kiln.
  13. 27. A type of movement in a sculpture that is stationary, looks fixed, doesn’t appear to be moving.
  14. 28. Clay has a water moisture content at or near 0%.
  15. 29. The type of shape that you make up the name - blob, squished circle, etc.
  16. 31. Used to check your clay for air bubbles.
  17. 32. Occupies space.
  18. 34. A coil placed along attached slabs to make them stronger.
  19. 36. How the pieces of your sculpture/ceramic piece are arranged.
  20. 37. The number of days clay needs to dry out to get from the leatherhard stage to the greenware stage.
  21. 38. The act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or has to be constructed.
  22. 40. Used to create the look and feel of action and to guide the viewer’s eyes throughout the work of art.
  23. 41. the type of wedging characterized by spirals on the upper right and left hand corners that resemble horns.
  24. 43. Any flat surface in 3-dimensional art. A planar sculpture uses these.
Down
  1. 1. A sculpture that projects from a base.
  2. 3. The type of shape that has a name - circle, triangle, rectangle, etc.
  3. 5. A way of combining elements to stress the differences between the two (for example, straight vs. curved.
  4. 7. The original slab that you rolled when you started your clay project.
  5. 8. A type of movement in a sculpture that is energetic, looks capable of change or action.
  6. 9. What the eye is drawn towards first on a work of art.
  7. 10. Smoothing the surface of your clay to get rid of textures
  8. 14. The guideline that states that compositions are more interesting if the focal point is on this intersection.
  9. 16. Where the viewer's eyes go throughout the sculpture.
  10. 17. Makes sure your clay is the same thickness all the way through.
  11. 19. The area around and in between areas of occupied space.
  12. 21. Where your balsa wood meets - think about it like a highway, where they cross.
  13. 24. The overall process we’ll use to create your first project.
  14. 26. The overall neatness.
  15. 30. Clay that has been fired in the first firing.
  16. 31. Kneading your clay to get all of your air bubbles out. Prevents your clay from blowing up in the kiln.
  17. 33. Scratching hatch marks (x’s) into a piece of clay to help attach pieces together.
  18. 35. Acrylic paint has this finish.
  19. 39. What clay turns into after the first glaze firing.
  20. 42. A mixture of clay and water that is put onto the clay after scoring and before attaching.