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Chem 148: Science and Art

Fall 2005         Wesleyan University         Middletown, CT

Syllabus: Thursday Labs

Drawing on Experience

Vases and Faces: Double Brain Experiment (Betty Edwards)

Upside-down Drawing (Betty Edwards)

Sculpting the Page Like Seurat

The Nature of Light

Newton's Prism Experiments

Spectroscopy, Fluorescence

Interference & Diffraction

Braggs Law

Color Vision

Visual Illusions (Cornsweet, Hermann Grid, Mach Bands, etc)

Simultaneous Contrast, Color Opponency, Afterimage

Pigments

Synthesis of Colorants: Prussian Blue, Barium White, Chrome Yellow, Synthetic Malachite

Organic Dyes: Microscale Synthesis of Indigo and Vat Dyeing of Cotton

Paints

Preparation of Binding Media: gum arabic, egg yolk, drying oils, acrylics

Making Paints: watercolor, egg tempera, oils, acrylics

Preparation of Dry Media: wax crayons, pastels, charcoal, conte crayon, pencil

Drawing and Painting Surfaces

Making paper

Preparing a Fresco, Egg Tempera, Oil Painting, etc

Perspective Devices

Camera Obscura

Camera Lucia

Drawing with Perspective Devices

Alternative Photographic Techniques

Salted paper prints - the original photographic technique

Cyanotype process

Diazo blueprint process

Conservation Techniques

Spectrophotometer and Spectral Imaging

Scanning Electron Microscopy

Infrared Reflectography