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Clay terms
terms dealing with clay]
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| art concepts | line ,shape, texture, form ,color ,and value |
| scoring | a technique for attaching 2 clay pieces together.the surfaces to be joined are scratched,covered with slip,and firmly pressed together |
| art media | the materials from which artwork is fashioned,in sculpture,often clay ,wood,stone,wire,plaster or metal singular medium |
| additive process | an approach to sculpting joing pieces to create a whole |
| clay sketch | a clay form that has been modeled quickly for the purpose of practicing a technique or trying an idea. |
| armature | a inner support structure for sculpture;usually made of wire ,newspaper,or cardboard. |
| greenware | dry clay or sculptures that are ready for firing (dry unfired clay). |
| hollowing out | removing clay from the inside of a solid to make the clay walls thinner,less apt to crack ,and to make the sculpture lighter. |
| intaglio | line designs etched into a surface. |
| in the round | not attached to a backgroung not in relief,a sculpture in which all parys are visible,except the bottom. |
| kiln | a furnance or oven built of heat resistant material for firing pottery or sculpture |
| leather head | clay that has hardened but is still cool and moist to the touch,like leather.clay that is still soft enough to carve or to join by scoring. |
| model | to form clay parts by gently working and manipulating the clay |
| mass | a shape that has length, width ,and depth. |
| negative shape | areas or spaces inbetween and around the soild form of a sculpture. |
| nonobjective | a form that is nonrepresentational |
| organic shape | free form;a form which is irregular,usually curiliner,and is suggestive of forms in nature. |
| positive shape | the solid parts of a sculpture. |
| coil | a long form that looks like a snake .----is an ancient tequnique used to make large pots and sculptres. |
| composition | the arrangment of forms in a work of art. |
| design principles | balance,movement,repitition,emphasisi,contrast,and unity. |
| form | a shape that has length |
| freestanding | modeled in the round ,as a relief sculpture would be.not attached to the background. |
| glaze | a coating applied to clay,that fuses and turns to glass when fired in a kiln under high temp; |
| protuberence | a part that jets out into space |
| realistic | a form that is true to life. |
| sturdy form | a well joined self-supporting form that will survive drying and firing without breaking |
| wedging | a preapatory process done to remove airbubbles |
| texture | the qualitity of a surface;its rough or smoothness. |
| viewpoint | the position form which an object is observed |
| slip | clay watered down to the consistency of soft butter. |
| slab | a thick piece of clay formed by rolling and throwing. |
| bisque | clay that has ben fired once |
| sculpting | the art and craft of creating forms and arranging them in space |
| relief | sculpting in which figures project from a flat surface;compare with freestanding sculpture has forms modeled in da round |
| subtractive process | in sculpting removing pieces from a solid from cariving away |
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