How to Draw and paint Author:Henry Gasser Now for the first time an authoritative and inexpensive book in which all the popular paiting media are given complete yet concise treatement. In this amazing handbook, filled with color plates and other illustrations, a famous artist and teacher gives step-by-step demonstarations that take you from the start of a painting to its completion. H... more »ere are just a few of the subjects covered: material and equipment, arranging the palette, painting surfaces, strethcing your canvas, palette knife painting, varnishes, brushes, brush handling, color exercises, light and shade, anatomy, composition, outdoor sketching, selection of wather colors, preparing water color paper, pen and ink drawing, color permanency, perspective, casein as a water color, gouache, and as an underpainting for oil. Plus a complete gloassary, and hundreds of other technical tips that will increase your skill and pleasure in painting.« less