On the Shelf
Color and light : a guide for realist painter
Thornton Dial : thoughts on paper
50 women artists you should know
Digital painting techniques
Color chart : reinventing color, 1950 to today
Grant Wood : a life
Abstract expressionism
Picasso and the invention of Cubism
Modigliani : a life
Jeff Koons
Ed Ruscha
On the Shelf
Figure drawing for all it's worth
Drawing academy
The basics of drawing
Lessons in classical drawing
Drawing the head & figure
Drawing on the right side of the brain : workbook
Vitamin D2 : new perspectives in drawing
Books on Drawing and Painting
To find books on painting in the Library catalog, click on the following heading:
- Painting
- Painters
- Still-life painting
- Watercolor painting
- Landscape painting
- Portraits
- Mural painting
- Figure painting
- Acrylic painting
- Color in art
- Drawing
To find books in the Library Catalog on the specific painters and their work, type their name in the search box under subject browse entering their last name first.
- Magritte, Rene
- Sargent, John Singer
- Cezanne, Paul
- Vermeer, Johannes
- Cassatt, Mary
- Wyeth, Andrew
- Bruegel, Pieter
- Leonardo, da Vinci
and others
Books on painting and painters are located on the 2nd floor of the library in the ND classification and books on drawing in the NC classification.
Books on Watercolor Painting
The watercolor artist's guide to exceptional color
Painting watercolors
Watercolor class
Books on Painting in Pastel
The pastel book
Pastel pointers
All about techniques in pastel
Painting sunlight & shadow with pastels
Painting the landscape in pastel
