1RTEEST-Mrs. Long GHS-SVArt

Ceramics:

1. Slip – liquid, pudding consistency of clay that acts as glue.
2. Ceramics – pottery or hollowware clay sculpture
3. Burrs- little pieces of clay that will form from a drawn or carved (sgrafitto) line into clay that is too wet to be carved.
4. Kiln – the oven or furnace that can reach very high temperatures and is used to fire the clay.
5. Fuse – to melt together.
6. Impressed Design – stamped into the leather-hard clay with a tool or die.
7. Incised Design – pattern cut into the clay with a sharp tool.
8. Ware – general term for a formed ceramic project.
9. Clay body – made up of a mixture of clays.
10. Low Fire – firing a kiln above 1300 F (704 C), but more typically from 1641 F (894 C) and up to 1940 F (1060 C), or cone 010 to cone 04.
11. Shrinkage – the decrease in the size of clay pottery due to drying and firing. Dry shrinkage is reversible with the return of water, but firing shrinkage is permanent due to chemical and physical changes the clay undergoes when exposed to heat.
12. Fire – to cook the clay at the appropriate temperature
13. Bisqueware – clay that has been fired once and not glazed.  It is still porous – not waterproof.
14. G-1 – the clear glaze that is applied to under glaze in multiple coats of three Under Glaze – a decorative technique in which one or more colorants are applied to pottery.
15. Overglaze – Overglaze can be clear or colored but always has silica, alumina and flux present to create a fusion of the glaze to the surface of the bisqueware.
16. Wall – the sides of a clay pot.
17. Dry foot- technique of sanding the bottom of any project to remove under and over glaze.
18. Foot – the bottom of a pot.
19. Banding wheel – a decorating wheel that is used to apply glazes, ensure circular conformity in the forming of the pot.
20. Coiling – a hand building technique used to make pottery. Long round strips of clay are used. They can vary from a thin strip to a large sausage like strip. It is hand manipulated, pinched and squashed together to form a pot without the coil like look from how it was started, though in some cases the clay can be left snakelike for the decorative look. It is started at the base of the pot and built upwards.
21. Colorant – any substance that will color something else.
22. Earthernware – a low fire clay that fires at cone 05 (approximately 1989 F in the kiln.
23. Cheese hard – this stage of clay can be carefully handled without deformation, due to it being dried sufficiently from its plastic state. It is the softest stage at which pottery can be shaved. Further drying would make it the leather hard stage.
24. Leather hard – clay that has lost moisture to evaporation but has not completely hardened.  It is bendable and is a good stage to graffito.
25. Bone dry – clay that is warm to the touch and is ready to fire.  All moisture is gone from the project.  Cheek test – if it is cool to the touch it is not dry enough.
26. Greenware – unfired formed clay project waiting to dry.
27. Kidney – a kidney shaped tool that can be used for smoothing and pressing clay in a mold. For smoothing purposes it is made of rubber or wood.
28. Sgraffito – this is a design that can be made by scraping or scratching through a layer of slip that has been applied to a piece of pottery to reach the contrasting color of the clay body beneath. 

OR simply scratching/drawing into the surface of leatherhard clay.
29. Score – to rough up each surface area of two pieces of clay that are to be joined.

Ceramics vocabulary

1. Earthenware Clay – also called a “low fire” clay that fires off at approximately 1989 deg. F.  Clay is made up of three things:  eroded rock surface, moisture and gases.
2. Metal Rib/Kidney – this tool is expressly used for scraping dry clay particles off tables to make for a clean and dust free working environment.
3. Fettling knife – blunt knife with a flexible blade used to cut or carve the clay.
4. Plastic – clay that is wet and workable.
5. Wedging – kneading moist clay to eliminate air bubbles and produce a uniform texture.  Wedging is imperative so projects do not explode in the kiln.
6. Fire – ceramic term for cooking the clay to its correct temperature.
7. Slake – the process of reconstituting recycled runny clay into a plastic clay body by allowing it to sit on the plaster bat and soaking up the moisture by evaporation.
8. Bat – a thick plaster slab on which wet clay is left to lose sufficient moisture to make it plastic.
9. Petroglyph – a prehistoric work of art that is carved into a rock surface.
10. tile – A slab of hard material such as baked clay. It is flat, textured or in bas-relief. It may either be single or considered as a group.
11. Bas relief- A French term meaning “low-raised work”. (pr. bah’ruh-leef’)

STUDY GUIDE FOR ALL EXAMS WILL BE POSTED ON THIS BLOG BY THE END OF THE WEEK.

Monday is a Day One

Block 2 – all stained glass projects should be completed by now.  This is the last project for the year.  Seniors are exempt with the appropriate grade and no less than 6 absences – follow the school policy.

B3 & B4 – Art II – students are completing their flip books – counts as project grade and visual part of the final exam.

BD2B1 – Art I – students are completing their flip books – counts as a project grade and visual part of the final exam.

D2B3 & B4 – Ceramics – all projects should have been built – no more building allowed as the projects do not have time to dry to be fired.  All glazing should be done by end of week.  Firing schedule is posted on board in ceramics studio.  There is a 25 question exam and visual portion of exam is the artist place setting.  Checkerboards will be celebrated on exam day as well, but these count only as a project grade.  These projects were assigned the week of March 19.

Zail came to visit his alma mater today and spoke to my Art III students about his first year adventures at NCSU.  He gave a great presentation and shared his art with the students.  Thanks Zail!  Come back soon.

Monday is a Day Two

D2B1 – Art I students continue to work on their animal sculptures.  Projects due end of class on Friday. Quiz on Monday on vocabulary.

D2B3 & B4 – Ceramics – the school year’s last project – artist place setting is due before exams.  Due and firing dates are posted in the studio.  Strict adherence.

D1B2 – Tuesday – continue stained glass; Thursday – guest speaker – Zail Smith on Freshman college art.

D1B3 & B4 – Tuesday – last day for printmaking collages.  New project on Thursday which will more than likely be our final for the year.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have lots of dots to connect, and they end up with a very linear solution without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.” 

–Steve Jobs

Sara Moeller (GHS 2002) married John Saunders this past weekend.  I was happy to be invited to share their wedding day with them.  Sara was my Art Student of the Year in 2002 – graduated from St. Francis University and went on to follow her passion of marine biology – always carrying her sketchbook with her – and became certified as a master diver.  Congratulations to Sara and John.

Zail – a freshman graphic design student at NCSU recently sent me a copy of his final project.  All I can say is WOW!  Great work Zail – here it is folks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fjrBJFPzYc

Monday is a day one

D1B2 – Art III – students continue to work with the stained glass windows – expect quiz on friday on vocabulary and processes.

D1B3 & B4 – quiz on Monday on printmaking – students begin collage process in B4 and project due end of class on Friday.  B3 – quiz on Monday, intro to monotypes on monday – collage on wednesday.

D2B1 – Art I – students continue constructing with reed their 3D bugs or animals.  Vocab on tuesday for quiz on Thursday.

D2B3 & B4 – ceramics – students continue to complete all final projects for the year.

Monday is a Day Two:

Thursday is field trip day for the Advanced Art Students to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and area galleries in Uptown.

Art I – hopefully I carts will be available on Monday to research Virginia insects in preparation for our sculpture project on constructivism.  If not, we will  learn about insects the old fashion research way!

Art II – Printmaking – students are now moving into their collage aspect of this printmaking/mixed media project dealing with their philosophy of life.  We will look at Romare Bearden, learn about various ways to create a collage and interpret them in our final project.

Art III – Stained Glass – students are continuing to assemble their glass pieces.  Thursday we visit the VMFA to view medieval art and stained glass and how artists use color in their art as well as visit some contemporary art galleries along the Main Street Uptown corridor.

Ceramics – All students are in different phases of their checkerboards and artist place setting.  Firing deadline dates will be posted this week for the remainder of the year.

Welcome back to school.

Monday is a Day I

B2 – Art III – students learn today everything there is to know about making stained glass windows.  Vocab handed out; demos done, student creates pattern and begins scoring their glass to design their windows.

B3 & B4 – Block printmaking – students continue to carve, print and create an edition of  8 prints to use in this mixed media collage “Philosophy of LIfe” from their self-portraits.  Expect quiz end of week.

Day two – Block I – Art I – students complete their Pop Parody Paintings and ready for exhibit.  New Project:

Block 3 & 4 – ceramics – students continue to work on checkerboards, begin artist place settings and should have turned in all Egyptian Soul Houses.