This textbook follows the same structure as its predecessor, while offering a complete overview on academic painting, a discipline that is built on traditional art education. The result of the authors four years of hard work is this well-illustrated book with excellent visual explanations that include tables, studies and paintings by old masters.

The Fundamentals of Painting presents a classical system of teaching while illustrating each stage of work in very laconic, straight to the point text. The following four subjects of painting are covered:

1. Portrait,

2. Nude figure,

3. Portrait with Hands,

4. Copying.