RESOURCES: CHAPTER 32 RESOURCES
For publisher and catalog addresses, telephone numbers, and other information, see the Sources section. Most books and tapes or CDs can be obtained from any bookstore or library; where we know of a mail-order option, we have provided it. These resources are divided into three lists: art skills (including art supplies), art appreciation, and music appreciation (at this stage, music skills should be studied with a professional teacher). For each list, we have given basic texts first, followed by supplementary resources (you can pick and choose among these). You can also use many of the resources listed in Chapter Twenty-One, particular the art skills books and materials.Art skills
Basic Texts
Dorling Kindersley Art School series. New York: Dorling Kindersley, various dates.
$16.95 in hardback, $9.95 in paperback. Check these titles out from the library, order from Dorling Kindersley (hardbacks only), or buy through a bookstore or online bookseller.
Horton, James. An Introduction to Drawing (1998)
Lloyd, Elizabeth Jane. Watercolor Still Life (1994)
Smith, Ray. Drawing Figures (1994)
______. An Introduction to Acrylics (1998)
______. An Introduction to Oil Painting (1998)
______. An Introduction to Perspective (1995)
______. An Introduction to Watercolor (1998)
______. Oil Painting Portraits (1994)
Wright, Michael. An Introduction to Mixed Media (1995)
______. An Introduction to Pastels (1998)Grubbs, Daisy. Modeling a Likeness in Clay. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1982.
Order from a bookstore or online bookseller. How to make a clay portrait; a year's course in realistic sculpting.Lucchesi, Bruno and Margit Malmstrom. Modeling the Figure in Clay. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1996.
Order from a bookstore or online bookseller.______. Modeling the Head in Clay. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1994.
Order from a bookstore or online bookseller.Slobodkin, Louis. Sculpture: Principles and Practice. New York: Dover, 1983.
$11.95. An introduction to the theory of sculpture, along with projects.
Art Supplies
Sculpey. Elk Grove Village, IL: Polyform Products.
$7.95 for a 2 lb. pack, $29.50 for an 8 lb. pack. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. Sculpey is an easy-to-work clay that fires in a reigular oven in 20 minutes without shrinking. Rainbow also sells Sculpey Glaze, in either matte finish or glossy finish, for $2.35 per bottle.Visit an art supply store, or call for art supply catalogs to browse through available materials:
Cheap Joe's, 1-800-227-2788, www.cheapjoes.com
Jerry's Artarama, 1-800-827-8478, www.jerryscatalog.com.
Rainbow Resource Center, 1-800-841-3456Supplementary Resources
Basic Techniques series. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, various dates.
These books will provide additional projects for those who want to do extra work.
Wolf, Rachel, ed. Basic Portrait Techniques (1994)
Wolf, Rachel, ed. Basic Still Life Techniques (1994)
Wolf, Rachel and Greg Albert, eds. Basic Oil Painting Techniques (1993)Art appreciation
Basic Texts
Strickland, Carol. The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Postmodern. Kansas City, MO: Andrews Mcmeel, 1992.
$18. Order from Rainbow Resource Center.Supplementary Resources
Beckett, Sister Wendy. The Story of Painting: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Art. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1994.
$39.95. Order through a bookstore or online bookseller, or try your library. Contains more than 450 full-color paintings spanning 800 years.Eyewitness Art series. New York: Dorling Kindersley, various dates.
$16.95 each. Order from Dorling Kindersley. Although some of these are still available through bookstores or online booksellers, Dorling Kindersley now sells most of them exclusively. Check your local library for short-term use.
Cole, Alison. Color (1993)
______. Perspective (1993)
______. The Renaissance (1994)
Opie, Mary-Jane. Sculpture (1994)
Welton, Jude. Impressionism (1993)
______. Looking at Paintings (1994)
Wiggins, Colin. Post-Impressionism (1993)Music appreciation
Basic texts
Waugh, Alexander. Classical Music: A New Way of Listening. New York: Macmillan, 1995.
$24.95 includes the book and CD.______. Opera: A New Way of Listening. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996.
$24.95Supplementary resources
McLeish, Kenneth and Valerie McLeish. The Listener's Guide to Classical Music: An Introduction to the Great Classical Composers and Their Works. New York: G. K. Hall, 1992.
$15.95.