Table of Contents

1. How to Approach Painting 2. The Mechanics of Painting 3. Angles and Consequent Values 4. Design-A Pattern of Differing Values 5. Light-Unity of Tone and the Meeting of Edges 6. Aerial Perspective-Transitions in Value and Color 7. Linear Perspective 8. Color-Its Emotional Value in Painting 9. Trees-How to Understand Them 10. Clouds-How They Float 11. Composition-The Expressive Properties of Line and Mass 12. The Main Line and Theme 13. The Extraordinary and Bizarre 14. Painting from Memory Index