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• Secondary Colors

  - green, violet, and orange

• Shade

  - Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.

• Shape

  - A defined area. Two-dimensional shapes are areas that stand apart or out from the space around them because of a definite boundary or difference of value, color, or texture. Shapes may be geometric, organic, or composite. There are positive and negative shapes which is also referred to as a figure-ground relationship. A figure-ground reversal occurs when the eye switches from seeing a shape as foreground and sees it instead as background.

• Slab built

  - Clay slabs are cut into shape, and joined together with scoring and wet clay called slip.

• Slip

  - A liquid form of clay. Slip is used to fill in pores, and even out the color. Slip is used to join clay.

• Space

  - The area around an object. Mass and forms occupy space. It can be actual (3-dimensional) or implied on 2-dimensional surfaces.  

• Spectrum

  - The colors that are the result of a beam of white light that is broken by a form of prism into its hues. 

• Stoneware

  - Sturdier then earthenware, stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed. 

• Symmetry

  - Symmetry is when one side of something balances out the other side.