FAS Painting Textbooks & Supplies
When you enroll in the Famous Artists School Course in Painting, you will receive a three-volume set of texts, a mailer and labels for sending your assignments to your instructor, instructions, assignments and assignment guides, and the useful booklet How to turn your part-time painting into dollars, along with the guidance and expertise of the Famous Artists School.
Three richly illustrated volumes guide you, step by step, through each of your lessons. You’ll have fun while you learn the secrets of our Famous Artists. And your textbooks, with their detailed descriptions of valuable techniques, are yours to keep for a lifetime of reference and inspiration.
As you work on each assignment, your Study Guide Instructions will refer you to the appropriate sections in your textbooks. You’ll find it valuable to review these inspiring books often. Each time you reread a section, you’ll discover a deeper, richer meaning, and when you apply this new knowledge to your painting, you’ll be delighted with your progress.
Here is a glimpse of some of the major subjects covered in your textbooks:
Your Art Heritage
Major movements in painting and how the great artists of yesterday and today achieved their effects. A brief survey of the contributions and influence of each movement.
The Magic of Color
Basic color principles and how to apply them. How colors affect each other—create different moods—advance and recede and change with lighting conditions.
Painting in Oil
A rewarding and versatile medium. How to paint outdoors—arrange palette—variety of tools and effects. Specific approaches to landscape, still life and portrait painting.
Watercolor Painting
Exploring this exciting, wonderful medium. How to select correct papers and right brushes. Color mixing, controlling values – quick sketches to finishes.
Picture Composition
The difference between an ordinary painting and one that is outstanding. How to select the elements—crop and arrange the forms to best advantage.
Creating Form
Learning how to draw and paint objects to look three-dimensional and real—perspective and the illusion of depth—how to simplify complex forms, combine simple forms.
Advanced Picture Composition
How to project a mood in your painting. The use of symbols and how to communicate the feeling of excitement, hope, despair, mystery, drama.
Creating Variety in Forms, Textures and Surfaces
Fascinating effects can be created through sensitive use of surfaces, forms and textures. How to convey the feeling of different materials in your painting.
Landscape Painting
Nature as a rich source of inspiration. How to select and organize the view, control the atmosphere and project the mood. The excitement of exploring different approaches to landscape painting.
Drawing the Human Figure
You start with the simple figure forms and logically evolve them into the complexity of reality—control of construction and proportion, simple anatomy.
Drawing Heads and Hands
A person’s face identifies him and sets him apart from anyone else. In your paintings, faces will be important. Learn to convey expression of the head and hands.
Portrait Painting
How to begin a portrait and carry it through to a successful completion. How to paint a portrait in different mediums with a variety of artists’ tools. Posing the model. Caricature in portrait painting.
Anatomy in Art
Advanced study of figure drawing and painting. Learning how the bones and muscles work and affect the look of the surface—comparing male and female structure.
The Figure in Motion
How to make a figure move and live. A variety of actions—walking, jumping, running, sitting == all needed for drawing and painting convincing pictures.
Drawing Clothing, Costumes and Drapery
To portray people effectively you must learn to draw clothing believably. A study of the variety of folds, their rhythm and structure.
Advanced Figure Composition
How to put people into pictures convincingly—appropriate to the picture mood and setting—relating them to each other and controlling the interest.
Drawing Animals
The basics of animal drawing and painting. Applying what you know about the figure to animals, how to include animals in your compositions, how to control their characteristics and action.
The Art Kit contains the supplies you need to complete your assignments
The FAS Art Kit, which is available separately, contains several brushes, oil and watercolor paint, a mixing tray, paper, a palette, and more all contained in a high quality wooden artist’s box that can also be used as an easel. It contains the art supplies you need to complete the lessons outlined in your Course.
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