Ceramics 1 Week 11

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Ceramics 1 Week 11
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Contour Line

• The outline of an object
• Outlines of wheel thrown bowls need to be
  symmetrical

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Banding Wheel

• A stand that spins to rotate pots while glazing

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Glossy Finish

• Shiny surface that reflects light
• Use to serve food in or on

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Matt Finish

• Dull surface that absorbs light
• Use on the outside of vessels and bowls

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Transparent glazes

• Clear glaze allows the color underneath to show
  through
• Under-glazes and Watercolor glazes need a
  transparent glaze on top

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Opaque glazes

• Cloudy so that you cannot see through to the
  color beneath

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Silica

• The ingredient in glaze that forms glass
• Ground quartz

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Flux

• The ingredient in glaze that lowers a glazes
  melting point, so that the glaze melts before the
  clay melts

• Lead, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium,
  barium, lithium, boric and zinc oxide are all
  fluxes.

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Oxides

• The ingredient in a glaze formula that
  determines the color of the glaze

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Creative Problem Solving Skill Intuition

• Trust your first impression
• Listen to your intuition
• Think about what appears to be the problem
• Ask others or get a new first impression

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Alan Alda US Actor (1936 - )

• Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative
  is the place where no one else has ever been. You
  have to leave the city of your comfort and go
  into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot
  get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and
  by not quite knowing what you are doing.

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Albert Eistein (1879-1955)

• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."

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When Your Projects Are Done Being Glazed

• Make sure your name is clearly written on the
  bottom
• Fill out a self-grade and place on the counter by
  the clock
• Both the plate and the container are due next
  week Friday the 5th of December