Transcendent Practices/F03 		            Williams, Kelly & Leverich

Equipment and Materials (available at the College Store, OAF and other locations)

Required Stuff:

•	Sketchbook, 8.5” x 11”, hardbound or spiral bound, white paper
•	Three-ring binder (your Program Portfolio), with divider pages with tabs, to contain your handouts, studio technical notes, seminar notes, misc. program notes, weekly work log/journal pages, draft and revised papers, assessment assignments, and midterm and final self-evaluations

Stuff for Sculpture
•	A couple of wood clay modeling tools (you can make your own)
•	Plastic buckets, yogurt containers, liter soda bottles, etc. (for mixing plaster)
•	Plaster spatula (make your own from old spoons)
•	Scissors
•	Safety glasses 
•	Dust mask(s) 
•	Apron or work shirt
•	Towel(s) (old bath towel)
•	Clear plastic garbage bags
•	Vaseline, thread, and cold cream 
•	Soap
•	Hand Lotion
•	Burlap; Rags
•	At least one good quality shallow carving gauge for the second half of the term (expect to spend about $30 for this tool, more details to follow)
•	Paints and finishes (more details to follow)

Also nice to have:
•	Additional clay tools, e.g., fettling knife, cut-off wire, etc.
•	Screw drivers, 1 regular and 1 Phillips head
•	Regular pliers; needle-nosed pliers
•	Sandpaper 
•	Plastic putty knife
•	12’ tape measure 
•	rolls of light guage wire (12-20 ga.)

Stuff for Drawing/Tools:
•	Pencils ( B, HB, F, H)
•	Magic Rub Eraser	
•	Pens ( an assortment of 3 or 4, e.g., rolling ball pens, broad, medium and fine felt-tipped pens, Pilot Razorpoint, Pilot Precise V-Fine and Extra Fine, etc.)
•	One big, thick black felt-tipped marker for putting  your name on things
•	One inexpensive bamboo Sumi brush
•	Bottle of black India or Sumi ink
•	Scissors
•	Masking tape

Also nice to have:
•	18” cork-backed steel rule
•	Exacto Knife
•	Matte Knife
•	Design markers (Prismacolor, a range of 2 or 3 grays, a small range of pale colors)
•	Other drawing media (colored pencil, pastel, ink, watercolor, oil crayon, etc.)
•	Hot Glue Gun and glue sticks (Glue guns can be checked out from the Wood Shop)
•	White (Elmer’s) Glue

Stuff for Drawing/Papers:

•	Sketchbook, 8.5” x 11”, hardbound or spiral bound, white paper
•	Tracing Paper, yellow or white, 12” or 18” wide rolls (very useful for design idea development and discussion)
•	18” x 24” white Strathmore drawing pad

Also nice to have:
•	Cardboard, chipboard, Strathmore Board for models
•	A big pad of newsprint paper, other drawing papers, watercolor paper, colored construction papers, etc.

You can’t make sculpture without tools and materials.  Various hardwoods, metal sheet stock, metal rods, bars, angles and channels are available for purchase in the Wood and Metal shops.  Plaster impregnated gauze strips will also be available for purchase.  We’ll be using plaster, steel rod and hardwood this term.  Expect to purchase some of each.  

Some other sources for sculpture materials to augment what you purchase in the Shops:

•	Junkyards (e.g., J&J Surplus, by the Olympia airport)			
•	Boeing Surplus (Renton)
•	Evergreen Dumpsters
•	Evergreen Scrap Pile (behind the Motor Pool)
•	Sound Builders Resource (downtown Olympia)

Scrounging works, too!