"The complete and comprehensive way to learn drawing and painting, with easy-to-follow lessons that show in step-by-step detail all the basic techniques for handling pencil, charcoal, watercolor, and oil paints, covering all the subjects art students take in their first year at school. Over 1,000 illustrations in color and black and white make the twelve lessons a pleasure to look at with historical examples, student do's and don'ts, equipment, materials, techniques, exercises and hundreds of projects to do at your own pace, each planned to show some aspect of the varied and visual world of the creative imagination." --BACK COVER.