ART 222E ARTISTS' MATERIALS & FORMULAS

Students will explore historic artists' materials and the scientific, socio-economic, and cultural influences that determined their use in defining art-making for the last thousand years. Assignments will incorporate these processes to facilitate work relative to contemporary expression. Formulas for making one’s own paints, ink, gesso, encaustics, fresco, and tempera will be used. Historical processes are also studied, including silver point, gold leaf, camera lucida, camera obscura, intaglio, the convex mirror, and pen making.