1. October 6, 2008 Get your Notebooks OR A blank piece of paper Toothpick Sculptures will be continued next week…

2. Wide World of Clay Basic Terminology to Get You Started

3. Ceramics: Pottery or hollow clay sculpture fired at high temperatures in a kiln to make them harder and stronger.

4. Vessel: A hollow container for holding something. Can also be “pottery”

5. Pinch Pot: Vessel created with basic pinching technique. Walls of vessel should be thin and smooth

6. Wedge: Clay is thoroughly kneaded before used to remove air pockets.

7. Coil Construction: Coils are long, snake-like ropes of clay that are used in making pottery.

8. Slab Construction: A pottery technique in which a form is built up by joining shapes cut from thick sheets of damp clay.

9. Scoring: To make scratches or creases in pieces of clay to be joined together.

10. Slip: Liquid made by mixing finely ground clay with water.

11. Greenware: clay that is completely air dry but not fired

12. Fire: the process of cooking clay so that it becomes impermeable and completely dry

13. Kiln: Oven that can reach very high temperatures and is used to fire clay until it hardens

14. Bisque ware: Clay that has been fired once but not glazed.

15. Glaze: Thin coating of minerals which produces a glassy transparent or colored coating on bisque ware.

17. First Clay Project: Abstract NATURAL FORMS You will learn the basic techniques of hand building with clay Each technique will be repeated in various ways for you to create a unique and curious sculpture

18. Artists to inspire you…

19. Karl Blossfeldt 1865-1932 German photographer Designed his own special camera so he could zoom in very closely to natural objects Achieved whimsical, abstract forms with great detail

26. Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 American painter Famous for her zoomed- in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, bones and landscapes