3.1 Painting and Drawing: Color

A Breakdown of Color in Film Stills ***

Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color

Art is Creation ***

Birren, Faber. Principles of Color: A Review of Past Traditions and Modern Theories of Color Harmony

Bomford, David and Ashok Roy. A Closer Look: Colour

Itten, Johannes, and Faber Birren. The Elements of Color

Guptill, Arthur L. Color in Sketching and Rendering

Gurney, James. Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter

Hope, Augustine, Margaret Walch. The Color Compendium

Loomis, Andrew. Creative Illustration

Long, Jim. The New Munsell® Student Color Set

Munsell, Albert. A Color Notation ***

__________. Atlas of the Munsell Color System ***

__________. A Grammar of Color: Arrangements of Strathmore Papers in a Variety of Printed Color Combinations According to The Munsell Color System ***

Wilcox, Michael. Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green: Or, How To Mix the Colour You Really Want-Every Time

3.2 Painting and Drawing: Materials

Chaet, Bernard. An Artist's Notebook: Techniques and Materials

Chieffo, Clifford T. The Contemporary Oil Painter's Handbook: A Complete Guide to Oil Painting

Doerner, Max. The Materials of the Artist

Gottsegen. Mark David. The Painter's Handbook

Hiler, Hilaire. Painter's Pocket Book of Methods and Materials

Just Paint ***

Kay, Reed. The Painter's Guide to Studio Methods and Materials

Maroger, Jacques. The Secret Formulas and Techniques of the Masters

Massey, Robert. Formulas for Painters

Mayer, Ralph. The Artist's Handbook

________. The Painter's Craft

Pigments through the Ages ***

Price, Michael. Renaissance Mysteries, Volume I: Natural Colour

Sands, Sarah. Just Paint ***

Sands, Sarah and Amy Mckinnon. Preparing a Canvas for Oil Painting ***

Smith, Ray. The Artist's Handbook

Turner, Jacques. Brushes: A Handbook for Artists

________. Colors and Materials for Oil Painting

Wehlte, Kurt. The Materials and Techniques of Painting

3.3 Painting and Drawing: Historical Sources

Abendschein, Albert. The Secrets of the Old Masters ***

Alberti, Leon Battista, and Martin Kemp. On Painting

Armenino da Faenza, Giovanni Battista. Dei veri precetti della pittura ***

Arsenne, Louis-Charles and Ferdinand Denis. Manuel complet du peintre et du sculpteur ***

Arsenne, Louis-Charles and Ferdinand Denis. Nouveau manuel complet du peintre et du sculpteur ***

Augsburg, De Reseo Leo. Augsburg's Drawing, Book 1 ***

__________. Augsburg's Drawing, Book 2 ***

__________. Augsburg's Drawing, Book 3 ***

__________. Drawing Simplified ***

__________. Elementary Drawing Simplified ***

__________. The New Augsburg's Drawing, Sixth Year Book ***

__________. The New Augsburg's Drawing, Eighth Year Book ***

Bargue, Charles and Jean-Leon Gérôme. Cours de dessin/Drawing Course ***

__________. Cours de dessin/Drawing Course (Ackerman edition) (hard copy)

__________. Cours de dessin/Drawing Course (Independent edition) (hard copy)

Bisagno, Francesco Domenico. Trattato della pittura ***

Boulenger, Jules César. De pictura, plastice, statuaria libri duo ***

Bouvier, M. Pierre Louis. Manuel des jeunes artistes et amateurs en peinture ***

Bradley, Milton. Elementary Color ***

Cennini, Cennino d'Andrea. Il Libro dell'arte (Merrifield translation) ***

Cennini, Cennino d'Andrea. Il Libro dell'arte (Thompson translation) ***

Clarke, Mark. Medieval Painters' Materials and Techniques: The Montpellier Liber diversarum arcium

Couture, Thomas. Methodes et entretiens d'atelier ***

Couture, Thomas. Conversations on Art Methods (English translation) ***

___________. A Treatise on Painting (multiple early manuscripts) ***

da Vinci, Leonardo. A Treatise on Painting (English translation) ***

de Honnecourt, Villard. The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt ***

Delaistre, Louis. Cours méthodique de dessin et de la peinture (volume 1) ***

___________. Cours méthodique de dessin et de la peinture (volume 2) ***

___________. Cours méthodique de dessin et de la peinture (atlas) ***

de Mayerne, Théodore Turquet. The De Mayerne Manuscript. (Sloan 2052) *** see also Fels, Donald. Lost Secrets of Flemish Painting

della Francesca, Piero. De Prospectiva Pingendi (original manuscripts) ***

___________. De Prospectiva Pingendi (Italian critical edition) ***

de Vries, Jan Vredeman. Studies in Perspective

du Fresnoy, Charles-Alphonse. De arte graphica/The Art of Painting ***

Dürer, Albrecht. Das Skizzenbuch von Albrecht Dürer ***

___________. Hjerin sind begriffin vier bücher von menschlicher proportion ***

___________. Underweysung der Messung (1525) ***

___________. Underweysung der Messung (1538) ***  

___________. The Painter's Manual

Dürer, Albrecht, and Walter Strauss. The Human Figure by Albrecht Dürer: The Complete Dresden Sketchbook

Eakins, Thomas. A Drawing Manual

Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock. Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters (volume 1) ***

___________. Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters (volume 2) ***

___________. Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters (volumes 1 and 2) (hard copy)

Fels, Donald. Lost Secrets of Flemish Painting (The De Mayerne Manuscript)

Fielding, Theodore Henry. On Painting in Oil and Water Colours for Landscape and Portraits ***

Hayter, Charles. A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours Assumed as a Perfect System of Rudimentary Information ***

___________. An Introduction to Perspective, Drawing and Painting in a Series of Pleasing and Familiar Dialogues Between the Author's Children ***

Koller, E. L. Light, Shade, and Shadow

Lamy, Bernard. Traité de perspective : où sont contenus les fondemens de la peinture ***

Laurie, A. P. Facts About Processes, Pigments and Vehicles, A Manual for Art Students ***

_________. The Painter's Methods and Materials ***

_________. The Pigments and Mediums of the Old Masters ***

Lomazzo, Gian Paolo. Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura ***

_________. A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge ***

Mappae Clavicula ***

Mappae Clavicula (English translation) ***

Mappae Clavicula (English translation) (hard copy)

Mérimée, J.F.L. De la peinture a l'huile ***

__________. The Art of Painting in Oil and Fresco ***

Merrifield, Mary P. The Art of Fresco Painting As Practiced by the Italian and Spanish Masters ***

__________. The Art of Fresco Painting As Practiced by the Italian and Spanish Masters (hard copy)

__________. Handbook of Light and Shade with Especial Reference to Model Drawing ***

__________. Original Treatises Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts of Painting (volume 1) ***

__________. Original Treatises Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts of Painting (volume 2) ***

__________. Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting: Original Texts with English Translation (hard copy)

Montpellier Liber diversarum arcium see, Clarke, Mark. Medieval Painters' Materials and Techniques: The Montpellier Liber Diversarum Arcium.

Moxon, Joseph. Practical Perspective; or, Perspective Made Easie ***

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, Jièziyuán Huàzhuàn (芥子園畫傳) ***  

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (hard copy)

Osborn, Laughton. A Handbook of Young Artists and Amateurs in Oil Painting ***

Oudry, Jean-Baptiste. Discourse on the Practice of Painting and Its Main Processes: Underpainting, Overpainting, and Retouching ***

Oudry, Jean-Baptiste. Réflexion sur la manière d'étudier la coleur en comparant les objets les uns avec les autres ***

Pacioli, Luca. De Divina Proportione ***

___________. De Divina Proportione (On the Divine Proportion) (hard copy)

___________. On the Divine Proportion (English translation) ***

Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh. The Painter in Oil ***

_________. The Painter in Oil (hard copy)

Pèlerin, Jean. De artificiali perspectiva ***

Pliny the Elder. Chapters on the History of Art

Pozzo, Andreas. Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum ***

Pozzo, Andreas, John Sturt, John James. Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper For Painters and Architects, etc (English translation) ***

Pozzo, Andrea. Perspective in Architecture and Painting (hard copy)

Rodler, Hieronymus. Eyn schön nützlich büchlin und underweisung der kunst des messens ***

Ruskin, John. The Elements of Drawing ***

___________. The Elements of Drawing  (hard copy)

___________. The Laws of Fésole. A Familiar Treatise on the Elementary Principles and Practice of Drawing and Painting ***

___________. The Laws of Fésole. A Familiar Treatise on the Elementary Principles and Practice of Drawing and Painting (hard copy)

Salmon, William. Polygraphice or The Arts of Drawing, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfumin ***

Solomon, Solomon J. The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing ***

Speed, Harold. Oil Painting Techniques and Materials

___________. The Practice and Science of Drawing ***

___________. The Practice and Science of Drawing (hard copy)

The Strasburg Manuscript, A Medieval Painter's Handbook Translated from the Old German (Borradaile translation)

The Strasbourg Manuscript: A Medieval Tradition of Artists' Recipe Collections (Neven translation)

Theophilus (Roger of Helmerhausen). De diversis artibus (Latin with English translation) ***

___________. On Divers Arts (English translation, hard copy)

Tingry, Pierre François. Traité theórique et pratique sur l'art de faire et d'appliquer les vernis (volume 1) ***

___________. Traité theórique et pratique sur l'art de faire et d'appliquer les vernis (volume 2) ***

___________. The Painter and Varnisher's Guide, or a Treatise, Both in Theory and Practice, on the Art of Making and Applying Varnishes (English translation) ***

Ward, James. History and Methods of Ancient & Modern Painting ***

Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists

Vasari, Giorgio. Vasari on Technique ***

3.4 Painting and Drawing: Health and Safety

Art and Craft Safety Guide ***

Art Hazards. King County, WA ***

Dick Blick – Health and Safety ***

McCann, Michael. Artist Beware

___________. Health Hazards Manual for Artists

Princeton University Art Safety ***

Rossol, Monona. The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide