Books

==The following list was compiled by art educators participating in the AP Art Studio list serv. AP Studio Art students may find many of these to be helpful reading or great resources for their research and work. ==

Amy T. Dreves High School Art Teacher Gettysburg Area School District
Suggested Texts for AP Studio Art: Drawing & 2D


 * Bridgeman, George B.; Edited by Howard Simon; Bridgeman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from Life– Over 1,000 Illustrations; Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. 387 Park Ave. South, NYC, NY 10016; 2001.
 * Civardi, Giovanni; Drawing the Human Anatomy; Studio Vista; Imprint of Cassell Wellington House, 125 Strand, London, WC2R OBB; 1996.
 * Edwards, Betty; The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Putnam, a member of the Penguin Putnam, Inc., New York, NY 10014, 1999.
 * Hale, Robert Beverly, & Terence Coyle; Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters– 100 Great Figure Drawings Analyzed; Watson Guptill Publications, 770 Broadway, NYC NY 10003; 2000.
 * Nicolaides, Kimon: The Natural Way to Draw; Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975.
 * Perspective Made Easy (educational packet); Publisher; New York, NY 1980.

 Suggested Texts for AP Studio Art: 3D


 * McCreight, Tim; The Complete Metalsmith, An Illustrated Handbook; Davis Publications; Worcester, Massachusetts. 1991.
 * Matthews, Glenice Lesley; Enamels, Enameling, Enamelists. Chilton Book Company; Radnor PA 1984.
 * American Craft: bimonthly publication of the American Craft Council, 72 Spring St., NY, NY 10012-4019.
 * Metalsmith Magazine; Society of American Goldsmiths, 5009 Londonderry Dr.; Tampa, FL 33647
 * Ornament; PO Box 452; Mount Morris, IL 61054 www.ornamentmagazine.com
 * The Crafts Report; 100 Rogers Road, Box 1992, Wilmington, DE 19899; 800-777-7098 www.craftsreport.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ceramics Monthly: 735 Ceramic Place, Suite 100, Westerville, Ohio 43081. www.ceramicsmonthly.com

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Ethan Rollerson
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 1. Composition: The anatomy of picture making by Harry Sternberg <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 2. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James Hall <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 3. Design Synectics: Stimulating Creating in Design by Nicholas Roukes <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 4. A Guide to Drawing by Danile M. Mendelowitz, David L. Faber, and Duane A. Wakeham <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 5. The AP Vertical Teams Guide for Studio Art by the College Board <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 6. Drawing for Older Children and Teens: A creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too by Mona Brookes

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Books from Larkin Evans
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Launching the Imagination 3rd edition by Stewart <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking by Holly Harrison <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Modeling the Figure in Clay Author: Bruno Lucchesi, Margit Malmstrom <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rodin: The Shape of Genius Author: Ruth Butler <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, The Graphic Arts From 1350 To 1575 Author: James Snyder <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Modern Sculpture: A Concise History Author: Herbert Read <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">THE ANNOTATED MONA LISA <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Handbuilt Ceramics by Kathy Triplett <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams (Good for graphic design) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dr. Lois Hetland, too ( Studio Habits of Mind) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clayworks: Form and Idea in Ceramic Design Leon Nigrosh <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ordinary to Extraordinary by Ken Vieth <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Puzzles About Art, an Aesthetics Casebook. 1989 by St. Martin's Press, New York. Primary authors were Margaret P. Battin, John Fisher, Ronald Moore, and Anita Silvers <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Nude Figure – A Visual Reference for the Artist by Mark Edward Smith, pub by Watson Guptill $29.95 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Figure in Motion, A visual Reference for the Artist by Thomas Easley, pub by Watson Guptill $24.95 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagination by Mary Stewart <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Guide to Drawing, seventh edition by Daniel M. Mendelowitz <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Art Spirit by Robert Henri <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Artist's Mentor by Ian Jackman, editor <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Painting as Language, Materials Technique, Form and Content by Jean Robertson and <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Craig McDaniel. ISBN # 0-15-505600 from Thomson Learning. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Experimental Drawing by Robert Kaupelis <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Art of Drawing by Bernard Chaet ISBN 0-03-062028-7 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exploring Visual Designs from Davis publication <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drawing for Older children & Teens by Mona Brookes <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arts With the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making by Harry Sternberg <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Design Basics By David Lauer and Stephen Pentak. It is published by Thompson Wadsworth and the ISBN # is 0-495-12845-7. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Design Synectics Art Synectics by Nicholas Roukes They are published by Davis Publications and their ISBN #'s are <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 0-87192-198-7 and 0-87192-151-0 respectively. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Principles of Form and Design by Wucius Wong <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shaping Space by Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">TRADING CARD WORKSHOP by Bernie Berlin, pub by North Light Books for $22.95 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur Guptill, pub. by Watson Guptil (Michael Halbert is another pen and ink artist) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sketching Your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink, and Capturing Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor. Claudia Nice <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Peterson's College Guide for Visual Arts (Guidance to what art college/university is best) from NAEA or National Art Honor Society)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">ALtered Books, Collaborative Journals and other Adventures in Bookmaking by Holly Harrison

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul Klee Hand Puppets There are 2 ISBN numbers: ISBN-13: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 978-3-7757-1740-3 and ISBN-10:3-7757-1740-4. You can also go to the publisher's website I found this book in the bookstore at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Strokes of Genius, the Best of Drawing, edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf - a collection of drawings which demonstrate many techniques and variety of subject matter. I am so inspired each time I open the book that I want to go draw something! It has beautiful illustrations of ways to handle nudes, lighting, portraits, animals, reflections and use of black and white as well as color. The portraits are just incredible.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keys to Drawing with Imagination Strategies and exercises for gaining confidence and enhancing your creativity. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It is written by Bert Dodson, Pub. by North Light Books. I found the book at Michaels for $29.99 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Color by Betty Edwards <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Calvin Tomkins: Ahead of the game: four versions of avant-garde <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Bride and the Bachelors : Five Masters of the Avant-Garde <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Duchamp : A Biography <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eric Hoffer; an American odyssey <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Intermission <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Off the Wall : A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Living well is the best revenge <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post- to neo- : the art world of the 1980's <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Roy Lichtenstein : mural with blue brushstroke <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ian Sidaway's Color Mixing Bible <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scene : reports on post-modern art <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">'Art and Fear' by David Bayles and Ted Orland

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Gullah Images: The art of Jonathan Green, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith: An Artist, A Place and a Time, <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Alfred Hutty and the Charleston Renaissance.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Forest Lover" by Susan Vreeland fictionalized account about Pacific Northwest Artist Emily Carr

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Modigliani- incredibly melodramatic but the kids love it!

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The Passion of Artemiscia" about Artemiscia Gentilieschi by Susan Vreeland (fiction)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">FACIAL EXPRESSIONS by Mark Simon (an incredible collection of hundreds of various head shot angles of people ages 20 - <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 83 with a section on hats and head gear....every imaginable facial expression for visual reference)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">SPILLING OPEN by Sabrina Ward Harrison <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (a rich personaljournal with lots of poignant text and 'awkwardly' beautiful graphics.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finding Your Visual Voice, a painter's guide to developing an artistic style...byDakota Mitchell and Lee Haroun

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Art Escapes; Daily exercises and inspirations for developing greater creativity and artistic confidence. by Dory Kanter

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Artist's Muse, unlock the door to your creativity...by Betsy Dillard Stroud.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The New Scratchboard, clay surface techniques and materials for today's artists...by Charles Ewing.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Art Studio: by Karin Schminke, Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Pierce Lhotka <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creative colored pencil workshop by Carlynne Hershberger and Kelli Money Huff <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colored Pencil Explorations by Tnie Gildow <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step by Ann Kullberg <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Complete Colored Pencil Book by Bernard Poulin

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I love Bet Borgesson's books on colored pencils. Go to this site http://www.borgesonstudio.com/ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Color Drawing Workshop" is Borgesson’s book I use the most

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Strokes of Genius, the best of Drawing by Rachel Rubin Wolf. She had put together some great samples of drawings, especially good ones on portraits with heavy stroke-making. One is on page 134 showing a drawing titled, "Kevin" by Neilson Carlin done in charcoal. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sketching your Favorite Subjects in Pen and Ink" by Claudia Nice.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Henry Horenstein's BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY is a great basic text

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Although they're not really text books: the Ansel Adams books called "The Negative" and "The Print" are still the best in my opinion for inspiration and a system that works for producing archival quality images. Not sure if new editions of this have online web support, but there is a gallery in Carmel, CA that specializes in this classic black and white photography. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.photographywest.com/index.html

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photography: The Essential Way By Barbara London, Jim Stone, John Upton

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mary Stewart's Launching the Imagination for my 2D Design and 3D Design

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> For drawing students I like a book called Drawing Dimensions by Cynthia Maris Dantzic

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">FROM FRANK SCIBILLIA
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The Art of Responsive Drawing" by Nathan Goldstein

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Drawing: Space, Form and Expression" by Wayne Enstice

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The Art of Drawing" by Bernard Chaet

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Drawing: A Contemporary Approach" by Teel Sale