Artists
An Artist that famously used 1 point perspective to paint the last Supper?
Leonardo Da Vinci
A paper covered on one side with abrasive material (such as sand) glued fast and used for smoothing and polishing.
Sand Paper
A model or replica of a machine or structure, used for instructional or experimental purposes.
(Hint)
An unfinished or rough model
Mock-up
Is aheavy, dark aluminium wire which is stiff, but can be bent and twisted into shape without much difficulty.
(Hint)
is affixed to a base which is usually made of wood. The artist then begins fleshing out the sculpture by adding wax or clay over the wire
Armature wire
Also known as conifers, these trees have needles rather than leaves.
Soft Wood
One of the pioneers of Collage Art.
(Hint)
Still-life with Chair Caning, Spring from 1912 is one of the earliest examples of collage as high art in Western art history,
Pablo Picasso
Is a hand tool with rows of metal teeth across its face. The size and pattern of the teeth determine how much wood will be taken off with each pass. The teeth can run in one direction, or have a crisscrossing pattern to remove wood more aggressively.
(wood)File
The measuring or ratio based on the relation of architectural elements with each other and their surroundings along with being in harmony with human body geometry.
Scale
Felt
Is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers, having their wood grain rotated up to 90° to one another.
Plywood
A Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical"
H. R. Giger
Is a woodworking shaping and finishing tool. It is used to manually remove small amounts of material and excels in tricky grain areas where hand planes would cause tear out. They are most suitable for working with hardwoods, and can be used instead of sandpaper.
Cabinet Scraper (card scraper)
The degree of exactness with which something is copied or reproduced. (exactness, precision, high level of finish)
Fidelity
Plexiglass falls under what type of plastic.
(Hint)
Often purchased in sheets as a lightweight or shatter-resistant alternative to glass
Acrylic
In a cross section of the stem of a woody plant, the increment of wood added during a single growth period. In temperate regions the growth period is usually one year
Growth ring
An Irish photographer that uses nature to produce beautiful and intricate sculptures that are made to exist short term in Nature and long term as photographs.
Andy Goldsworthy
Is a cutting tool with a sharpened edge at the end of a metal blade, used—often by driving with a mallet or hammer—in dressing, shaping, or working a solid material such as wood, stone, or metal.
Chisel
Is one of the seven elements of art and connotes a three-dimensional object in space.
Form
Is the negative or hollow cavity produced around a sculpted piece for use in creating multiples of that piece.
Mold
Heart wood
A Lisbon-born sculptor that creates delicate figurative sculptures using wire that’s formed to look like manically drawn ink sketches on top of photographs. Some pieces are even hung by invisible filament creating the illusion of hovering in place.
David Oliveira
Is a chisel with the cutting edge bent into a curve. Designed to carve grooves without the corners of the tool digging into the wood.
Gouge
Is a means of representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions.
Orthographic Projection
A soft metal that doesn't contain Iron is categorized as what type of metal.
Non-ferrous
Is defined as wood where the annular growth rings intersect the face of the board at a 60 to 90 degree angle.
(Hint)When cutting this lumber at the sawmill, each log is sawed at a radial angle into four quarters.
Quarter sawn