How to Draw and Paint Author:Henry Gasser Now for the first time an authoritative and inexpensive book in which all the popular painting media are given complete yet concise treatment. In this amazing handbook, filled with colored plates and other ilustrations, a famous artist and teacher gives step by step emonstrations that take you from the start of a painting to its completion. He... more »re are a few of the subjects covered:
Material and equipment light and shade
Arranging the palate Anatomy
Painting surfaces Composition
Streching your canvas Outdoor sketching
Pallette knife painting Selection of water color
Varnishes Preparing water color
Brushes paper
Brush handling Pen and ink drawing
color exercises color permanency
Perspective
Casein as a water color, gouache, and as an underpainting
for oil.
Plus a complete glossary, and hundred of other technical tips that will increase your skill and pleasure in painting.« less