Painting School: Learn to paint more than 250 things!

Tanya Emelyanova (Illustrator)

With Painting School, kids will discover how easy it is to paint anything—animals, people, nature, objects, and more—with simple steps and easy lessons!

Painting School provides the first steps to a lifelong love of art. Your child will learn how to paint anything they see in the world around them by following a few simple steps. This comprehensive, 240-page, flexi-bound art guide reveals how easy it is to paint, with easy-to-follow step-by-step projects, colorful art, and clear instructions.

Before the step-by-step painting projects, this book begins with the basics, such as the paintbrushes and paints to use, the differences between popular paint types, how to mix colors, what to paint on, and much more. Then painting class really begins! A variety of subjects are covered, from animals and people to nature and simple, everyday objects. Some of the projects include:

• Zoo animals, such as a panda and a lion
• Pets, such as dogs and cats
• People, such as kids, adults, and a jogger and a firefighter
• Fairy tale characters, such as a princess and a brave knight
• Mythical creatures, such as a mermaid and a unicorn
• Vehicles, such as a car and an ice cream truck
• Fruits and vegetables
• Plants, such as trees and flowers
• Dinosaurs, such as a Tyrannosaurus rex

Featuring more than 250 subjects, Painting School teaches young artists how to paint each one with clear, easy-to-follow steps. So grab a brush and let’s paint—school is in session!  

• ISBN13: 9781633227101
• Publish Date: 6 June 2019
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 26 July 2023
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Walter Foster Jr.
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 240
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Painting School is a new tutorial and technique guide aimed at younger artists and their adults. Released 4th June 2019 by Quarto on their Walter Foster Jr. imprint, it's an impressive 240 pages and available in flexibound format.

Roughly 10% of the page content is taken up with an accessible, well written introduction covering materials, color theory, tools, and other how-to's. As an aside, the text is well illustrated and so very appealing and upbeat. The small color wheels, for example, are liberally illustrated with cute smiling faces. I enjoyed just paging through this vibrantly colorful book. There's no dry and dull explanatory text here.

The introduction is followed by step by step tutorial pages starting with very simple fingerprint painting where a finger/thumbprint is enhanced with drawn in details after the paint is dry. There are so many cute ideas, from animals to plants and even a submarine. All of them can be successfully completed by even beginning artists (yes, even me!). The end of the chapter has a nice full page illustration in color of a landscape done by fingerprint painting and is a good example of composition and placement.

The next chapters use simple geometric shapes built up into recognizable subjects. There are chapters for animals, people, fantasy subjects, nature, edible things, vehicles, space, and dinosaurs. There are enough subjects to keep kids of all ages busy and engaged for a long while.

Beautifully done.

This would make a superlative addition to the classroom library. It would also be a great selection for camp/kid art time at a public library as well as a go-to book for summer vacation fun at home.

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.