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Resources and Recommended Books

Supply List for Class

Class Syllabus

Safety Concerns for Pregnant Painters

Artist's Resumé

Why and Why Not to Use Egg Tempera

Panel Prep, Part 1:Rabbitskin Glue

How to Make Chalk Gesso

Panel Prep, Part 2: Gesso Priming

How to Make Egg Medium

Preparing Pigments and Making Paint

Tips for Painting

Daniel Smith
4150 First Avenue South
POBox 84268
Seattle, WA 98124-5568
1-800-426-6740
www.danielsmith.com
   Dry pigments, tube egg temperas, gold & other leafs, gilding tools & supplies, rabbitskin glue, chalk gesso mix, gesso ingredients, hardboard panels, brushes, dust masks, general books. Beautifully produced catalogue of all-purpose 2-D supplies. Friendly, fast service, good prices. Catalogues also include how-to articles, advice & reviews.

Iconofile
1370 Annapolis Way
San Jose, CA 95118
408-557-6836
www.iconofile.com
   Pigments, brushes, gilding and gessoing supplies, books, all with a focus on traditional eastern orthodox icon painting.

Kremer Pigments, Inc.
228 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012
1-800-995-5501
www.kremer-pigmente.de
   Dry pigments (incredible range), pigments ground in water, rabbitskin glue, gesso ingredients, jars & bottles, brushes, dust masks, books. Prices are very good. They are helpful & willing to answer questions. The storefront is tiny, but well-stocked, if you have the chance to visit. Their catalogue contains a lot of information.

New York Central
62 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10003
1-800-950-6111
www.nycentralart.com
   Dry pigments (good assortment), tube egg temperas (wide range), gold & other leafs (good range), gilding tools & supplies, rabbitskin glue, chalk gesso mix, cradled unprimed panels, chalk gesso-primed panels, brushes, books. Excellent, all-purpose supply house with a laid-back attitude. The only drawback is the chaotic nature of their catalogue, which is really a half dozen or so leaflets, booklets, and inserts which are continually and haphazardly updated.

Pearl
308 Canal St
New York, NY 10013
1-800-451-7327
www.pearlpaint.com
   Dry pigments, tube egg temperas, gold & other leafs, gilding tools & supplies, rabbitskin glue, chalk gesso mix, hardboard panels, chalk gesso-primed panels, brushes, books. Unlike the other suppliers, Pearl will sell your name to mailing lists unless you opt out. There is now a Pearl Art Supply Store in Chicago, at 225 W. Chicago Avenue, right in the River North gallery district.

Sepp Leaf Products
381 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
www.seppleaf.com
   All kinds of gilding supplies.

Sinopia
3385 22nd St
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-824-3180
www.sinopia.com
   "Pigments and Materials for Restoration, Interior Design, Fine Arts". Very similar to what Kremer Pigments carries, althhough Sinopia's prices are noticeably higher.

www.eggtempera.com {Website of the Society of Tempera Painters. Very thorough, very useful}

http://eggtempera.free.fr {Charming. Lots of technical information translated quirkily from the French}

These are useful:

   Bruce Cole, The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York 1983 (9th printing 1994).

   Robert L. Feller (Vol. 1), and Ashok Roy (Vol. 2), and Elisabeth West Fitzhugh (Vol. 3), eds., Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1986 (Vol. 1), 1993 (Vol. 2), 1997 (Vol. 3). {Very, very technical}

   Mark David Gottsegen, The Painter's Handbook. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York 1993. {By the chairman of the ASTM}

   Guillem Ramos-Poquí, The Technique of Icon Painting. Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg, PA 1991.

   Altoon Sultan, The Luminous Brush: Painting With Egg Tempera. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York 1999. {An excellent modern introduction}

   Daniel V. Thompson, Jr., The Practice of Tempera Painting: Materials and Methods. Dover Publications, Inc. 1962. {The classic introduction}

   Robert Vickrey and Diane Cochrane, New Techniques in Egg Tempera. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York 1973 (6th printing 1989).