Materials

Readings

Internet links

 

SKETCH BOOK-sketchbook is mandatory - it is to compliment your 2D web link.

good materials to accumulate:

Digital Camera or Disposable Camera

H Drawing Pencil

B drawing Pencil

Pencil sharpener

Plastic Eraser

Shapie magic markers: Extra fine point, fine point, super point.

Steel Ruler with cork back.

Scissor

Compass

Triangle 45¾45¾ 90¾

Triangle 30¾ 60¾ 90¾

Tracing Paper Pad( 14 x 17")

Bristol Board Pad (14" x 17" smooth)

Graph paper Pad(14" x 17", 1 in grid)

Xacto knife

Glue Stick

Winsor Newton Paint Brushes Series 237 Bright Size 1 and 3

 

the following materials will be outlined specifically in the assignments with regard to size.

Illustration board

Mat board, Smooth 2ply and 4 ply

Liquitex Artist Color- Medium viscosity- Titanium White, Medium Magenta, Brilliant Blue, Cadmium Yellow Light.

 

Materials may be bought at:

Pearl Paint

308 Canal St.

212-431-7932

207 E23 Street

212-592-2179

 

New York Central Art Supply

62 Third Ave.@11th St.

212-475-2542

 

Utrecht Art Supply

111 4th Ave @E12 ST

 

 

Required book:

John Berger "Ways of Seeing", British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books.

Other books of interest"

 

Wicius Wong, "Principles of Two Dimensionsl Design" ISBN-0-471-28960-4

Paul Klee, "Pedagogical Sketchbook" NC703.k58 1953 c.1

Paul Klee, "Form, Function & Design

Mary Stuart "Launching the Imagination" ISBN-0-07-248540-X

John Bowers "Introduction to Two Dimensional Design: Understanding Form and Function" ISBN.0471292249

Donald D Hoffman "Visual Intelligence" ISBN 0-393-31967-9 pbk.

Rudolf Arhheim "Entropy and Art" ISBN 0-520-02617-9

John Maeda "Design By Numbers" MIT Press 2000

Paul Jacques Grillo, "Design Principles & Problems,

Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art", Dover Publications

Michel Foucault, "This Is Not a Pipe", University of California Press

Books regarding Color:

Joseph Albers. "Interaction of Color" Yale University Press

Johannes Itten "The Elements of Color", Van Nostrand Reinhold

Wucius Wong . "Principles of Color Design" ISBN: 0471287083

Jeanne Allen, "Designer Guide to Color 3", Chronicle Books

 

Tilings from Historical Sources

http://www2.spsu.edu/math/tile/grammar/

 

Launching the Imagination

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072303557/

 

Lightness Demonstrations

http://www-bcs.mit.edu/gaz/

 

Hue Circle

http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/courseware/cs

160/spring99/Lectures/08-Perception/sld001.htm

 

Additive Color

http://www.bway.net/~jscruggs/add.html

http://home.att.net/~RTRUSCIO/COLORMX.htm

http://pollux.geog.ucsb.edu/~jeff/115a/history/additive.html

http://archive.devx.com/projectcool/developer/gzone/color/add.html

 

Subtractive Color

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/

java/scienceopticsu/light/subtractive.html

http://archive.devx.com/projectcool/developer/gzone/color/sub.html

Artists

Joseph Albers

http://www.sylloge.com/5k/entries/176/1.html

http://www.popartuk.com/art/joseph-albers-alb354-print.asp

http://www.clevelandart.org/

Explore/artistwork.asp?artistLetter=A&recNo=8&woRecNo=0

Interaction of Color http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/

detail/-/0300018460/002-3491915-5545613?v=glance

 

Munsell

http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/Source/Solutions/munsell/index.asp

http://www.coloracademy.co.uk/Subjects/Munsell/p2.htm

http://maya-archaeology.org/

GretagMacbethMunsellcolorcharts/GretagMacbeth_Munsellcolors.htm

 

Mundi Design

http://www.mundidesign.com/presentation/index2.html

 

 

 

 

other Research topics:

Pacific Northwest Indians

Tatoos

Textile designs

Islamic pattern design

Sacred Geomety

Cognitive Pyschology

Bauhaus

Light and Physics

 

 

 

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